Manti Messenger | 1939-06-16 | Page 4 | Glass Snake is Lizard |

Type	issue
Date	1939-06-16
Paper	Manti Messenger
Language	eng
City	Manti
County	Sanpete
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
ARK	ark:/87278/s6960gp4
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6960gp4

Article Title	Glass Snake is Lizard
Type	article
Date	1939-06-16
Paper	Manti Messenger
Language	eng
City	Manti
County	Sanpete
Page	4
OCR Text	Show t Glass Snake Is Lizard The so-called so joint snake or glass snake is a lizard which ha has the appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap of a snake It has a very brittle tail which will break off when grasped Its scales have a highly polished surface like glass There is of course no truth in the belief that the broken part will re reunite reunite unite with the rest of the lizard Some glass snakes are blackish with a bright green spot in each scale others are olive with yellow dots on scales while in others the dots fuse in the form of longitudinal stripes
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6960gp4/5603842