What is a chlamdyosaurus?

1. Is the Chlamydosaurus a dinosaur?
2. Are Chlamydosaurus poisonous?
3. What lizard flares out its neck?
4. Is a frilled lizard a reptile?
5. What's the spitting dinosaur in Jurassic Park?
6. What do frill neck lizards eat?

Is the Chlamydosaurus a dinosaur?

This fictional dinosaur is clearly inspired from a real animal known as the 'frilled dragon', that lives today in northern Australia and southern New Guinea. These lizards, also known as Chlamydosaurus kingii, have a large disc of skin that sits around their head and neck.

Are Chlamydosaurus poisonous?

A frilled lizard also goes by the names frilled dragon and frilled agama. ... These lizards live in northern Australia and New Guinea. Upon seeing the raised neck frill of this lizard, some people think it's venomous or that it spits poison at predators. In reality, this reptile is not venomous and has no poison to spit!

What lizard flares out its neck?

The frilled lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii), also known commonly as the frill-necked lizard, frilled dragon or frilled agama, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae.

Is a frilled lizard a reptile?

frilled lizard, (Chlamydosaurus kingii), type of reptile found in Australia and New Guinea that can run standing up on its hind legs with its forelegs and tail in the air. ... Normally, the neck frill, often as wide as the lizard is long, lies like a cape over the shoulders.

What's the spitting dinosaur in Jurassic Park?

The poison-spitting dinosaur reconstructed in Jurassic Park is Dilophosaurus. At the time the movie was produced, there was no evidence that this or any other dinosaur spat poison or had poisonous saliva of any kind.

What do frill neck lizards eat?

The species will use trees to escape predators and to hunt spiders and insects. The rest of their diet is found on the ground and includes spiders, ants, termites, insects and other small lizards. The carpet python is the frilled neck lizard's one known predator.