Forget Spider-Pig: The hot new animal superhero is Spider-Lizard, otherwise known as the rock agama, which has red-and-blue coloring that is an amazing, nay, uncanny match to Spidey's costume.



Not surprisingly, the British newspaper The Telegraph reports that comic-book fans have been snapping up the exotic lizards as pets.

It can grow up to a foot long, and the squeamish may find it a problem to feed—a balanced diet for an agama includes locusts, crickets, mealworms and waxworms.

Native to Kenya, the rock agama (Agama mwanzae) is unable to throw webs, but can change colour—the brightly coloured males will change brown at night or if frightened. They can also run on their hind legs, and—like Spidey—can scale vertical walls.

What a cool looking lizard...don't show it to my boyfriend though! We don't need another lizard in this house. It eats basically the same things as our bearded dragon, Maynard (except Maynard also enjoys the veggies - green beans are his fave), so I don't really see any squeamishness about feeding it bugs and worms (the less bugs and worms in the world the better!).

Does Spider-Lizard have a theme song yet?

spidergoblin approves

the second pic spidey-lizzy looks meaner

spider-lizard
spider-lizard
does everything a spider-lizard can
can he swing from a thread
no he can't
he's a spider-lizard

Did anyone check out the "Hitler is Alive" conspiracy theories up in the top right hand corner of the page? The one about him escaping to the moon is hilarious!

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Originally posted by Kennywood:
Native to Kenya, the rock agama (Agama mwanzae) is unable to throw webs, but can change colour—the brightly coloured males will change brown at night or if frightened. They can also run on their hind legs, and—like Spidey—can scale vertical walls.

The rock agama. Native to Kenya. Hmmm. Sounds like another conspiracy theory about the U.S. President. [ducking]

Here lizard lizard lizard, I think I need a bigger box. (Taco Bell Dog), Bet that poor ole dog would have run away.