GREEN LIZARDS

(Mendacodylus onerosus)

Habitat: Flatlands, lush environments
Conservation status: Least Concern (Extinct)
Dental form: Stocky & backwards-curved teeth
Method of hunting: Chase
Tongue Length: 15 Centimeters
Bite force: 15,000 Newtons
Weight: 750 Kilograms*


A hefty and seemingly calm-natured lizard known for its powerful endurance and charge. Despite its reputation as a mostly uncaring lizard that will often forget about its prey quickly, they are highly aggressive towards other lizards, particularly in their own species. It commonly has stubby spikes on its dark body to disuade predators from eating it*. As a result of its weight, it has a crocodile-like gait, pulling itself forward along the ground. It also cannot climb vertical surfaces or light poles. Green lizards are unique in that Worm grass completely ignores them, likely due to its weight and power not being worth the energy to pull down and digest. Its diet is that of a normal lizard, with the exception that it will, when able, attempt to catch and eat Blue Lizards.