Native To: glass lizards are found throughout the southern and eastern portions of Georgia and South Carolina.

Glass lizard Appearance: Glass lizards are long, slender, legless lizards that superficially resemble snakes. They differ from snakes, though, in that they have moveable eyelids, external ear openings, and inflexible jaws.

Glass Lizard Diet: Glass lizards eat a wide variety of insects, spiders, and other invertebrates as well as small reptiles and probably young rodents.

Habitat: Glass lizards are very common in coastal dune habitats and are sometimes even found beneath debris at the tide line.

Drink: Glass Lizards drink the dew from blades of grass.

Sleeping Habits: Glass Lizards are diurnal, meaning that they are awake during the day.

Glass Lizard Breeding: In early summer, female glass lizards lay several eggs under a log, board, or other cover object. The female apparently attends the eggs until they hatch later in the summer.

Tails: Glass lizards earned their name by their propensity to "shatter" by breaking their tail, often in several pieces. The common belief that these pieces can rejoin is a myth, although they tail will slowly regrow over a period of months or years.

Not a Snake: They differ from snakes, though, in that they have moveable eyelids, external ear openings, and inflexible jaws.