#earless lizard

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Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus), male in breeding colors, family Phrynosomatidae, West TX, USA

photograph by Dick Bartlett

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Deflating into a wretched depressed creature in order to evade predator (phone camera).

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Greater Earless Lizard, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA

photograph by CA Hoyt | National Park Service

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Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus), male in breeding colors, family Phrynosomatidae, NM, USA

photograph by Daniel Hueclin

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Earless Monitor Lizard (Lanthanotus borneensis), family Lanthanotidae, endemic to Borneo

ENDANGERED.

Semi-aquatic.

Closely related to true monitor lizards in the family Varanidae.

The only member of its family.

They do have inner ears, and are capable of hearing, despite the lack of ear openings and tympanae.

photographs by Reptiles4all and Chien C. Lee

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Greater Earless Lizards (Cophosaurus texanus), males in breeding colors, family Phrynosomatidae, found in the SW United States

photographs by Martin Horowitz

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Elegant Earless Lizard (Holbrookia elegans), family Phrynosomatidae, Santa Cruz County, AZ, USA

©R.C. Clark: Dancing Snake Nature Photography

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Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus), male in breeding colors, family Phrynosomatidae, Superior, AZ, USA

R.C. Clark: Dancing Snake Nature Photography