frill neck lizard! he expand! he’s named Chlamydosaurus which is pretty bad ass right there. and it’s just so cool that this is a real animal that really exists in the world
flying lizard! she also expand, but different! she’s named Draco volans so again A+++ scientific nomenclature. she is extra cool because she flies with her ribs! wings have been invented so many times in nature – bird wings are compressed hands, bat wings are expanded hands, pterosaur wings were fingers, flying fish wings are fins, bug wings are their own thing – and this is a whole nother way to make a wing!
new Mexico whiptail lizard! she is an entire race of bad ass lesbian lizards who do their thing without any males! just a 100% female species that doesn’t need sperm to make babies. and let’s be clear: they have sex. they don’t exchange gametes, but they do have sex. god speed you awesome little lesbian lizards
basilisk lizard! he is also called the Jesus Christ lizard because he legit runs on water! that’s just a thing he can… do! also look at him, he looks amazing. also you looked at him so you’re a rock now, sorry about that.
Jackson’s chameleon! because he is a God Damned Tricera Tops.
except he changes color and his eyes move independently and he has a sweet crest and a prehensile tail and gives live birth, so he is more like a Triceratops with extra features. look at his little feet. I love him.
there are many more lizards I couldn’t even fit in here! there are lizards that squirt blood out of their eyes and lizards that look like earthworms and lizards that are ten feet long and we haven’t even talked about prehistoric lizards which is a whole nother ballgame of amazingness! oh man I LOVE LIZARDS but you asked for just five and it was hard
Kimchi and Justice 