Well, lizards don't care about looking svelte.

虽然蜥蜴并不在乎看起来苗条这件事。

Perhaps, he says, the ichthyosaur snapped at the sea lizard—but the lizard fought back.

他说，可能鱼龙突然咬住了海蜥蜴，但海蜥蜴反击了。

Flying fish, flying frogs, flying lizards, flying squirrels.

飞鱼，飞行蛙，飞蜥蜴，飞鼠。

It told me things about him I never knew to ask.

一切或许始于他抵达不久后有次磨人的午餐。当时他坐在我旁边，我总算注意到，尽管那年夏初，在西西里岛短暂逗留时，他晒得有点，但掌心和脚底、喉咙、前臂内侧都一样的白皙、柔嫩，因为都没怎么晒过太阳。几乎淡粉的，像蜥蜴腹部一样光亮平滑。私密、纯洁、青涩，就像运动员脸上的红晕，或夜之后的一抹黎明曙光。这些透露出的我死也不会去问的事。

As many as 41 of the lizards were sold in other countries for $35,000 each.

多达41只蜥蜴在其他国家/地区以每只$ 35,000的价格售出。

What is the largest living lizard in the world?

世界上最大的活体蜥蜴？

Sleepy lizards live in Western and South Australia, where they're quite common.

睡眠蜥蜴住在澳大利亚西南部，在那里十分普遍。

American conservationist Thor Hanson records and measures anole lizards in the Caribbean.

美国环保主义者托尔·汉森对加勒比海地区的变龙蜥蜴进行记录和测量。

This heron might have been a lizard-eater.

这只鹭也许以蜥蜴为食。

But, of the vertebrates unpredictable Nature selected only snakes (and one lizard).

然而，在脊椎动物中，大自然神秘模测地只选择了蛇（还有一种蜥蜴）。

Today, I'd like us to have a look at another reptile, the lizard.

今天，我想让我们看看另一种爬行动物，蜥蜴。

The bizarre-looking creature was half fish, half lizard.

这种外形怪异的生物一半鱼，一半蜥蜴。

So where did these large lizards come from?

这些最大的蜥蜴来自何方那？

But legless lizards have fleshy tongues because they evolved from different lizard ancestors.

但无腿蜥蜴有肉质的舌头，因为它们从不同的蜥蜴祖先进化而来的。

Legless lizards have eyelids and ears while true snakes have neither.

没有腿的蜥蜴有眼睑和耳朵，而真正的蛇两者都没有。

And the survivors also carried variations in their DNA that more closely matched northern lizards.

而且，幸存下来的南方蜥蜴还携带着变异DNA，这种DNA与北方蜥蜴的基因更为匹配。

Lizard eats paper. Paper disproves Spock. Spock vaporizes rock. And as it always has, rock crushes scissors.

蜥蜴吃布，布否定史波克，史波克蒸发石头，再加上一如既往的规则，石头砸剪子。

Some believed that snakes evolved on land, and that their ancestors were small, burrowing lizards.

一些科学家认为蛇从陆地上进化而来，它们的祖先小的，穴居的蜥蜴。

It's got a goanna, a road train and an eagle.

有大蜥蜴，公路货车和一只老鹰。

The black-headed python has a taste for lizards.

黑头蟒对蜥蜴情有独钟。