The Slow Worm Is Not a Worm
Clip: Season 42 Episode 17 | 1m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
The slow worm is neither a snake nor a worm but a legless lizard.
The slow worm is neither a snake nor a worm but a legless lizard. Its round tongue and moving eyelids put it in the lizard category.
Major support for NATURE is provided by The Arnhold Family in memory of Henry and Clarisse Arnhold, The Fairweather Foundation, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Charles Rosenblum, Kathy Chiao and...
The Slow Worm Is Not a Worm
Clip: Season 42 Episode 17 | 1m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
The slow worm is neither a snake nor a worm but a legless lizard. Its round tongue and moving eyelids put it in the lizard category.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Narrator] No snakes had ever managed to make the journey to Ireland.
Today, this strange creature is as close as it gets.
A legless lizard called a slow worm.
It's round tongue and moving eyelids put it in the lizard camp as snakes don't blink.
Quite how the slow worm reached the Burren no one knows.
A non-native, it's only been discovered here in the last century.
A ruthless predator, the slow worm has mastered the art of hunting slowly.
Beware any creature that comes in range of this speed demon.
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