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Spider Lizard! Spider Lizard! Does whatever a spider lizard does!
Demand for a Sub-Saharan lizard has soared in the U.K., apparently after comics fans realized the red-and-blue reptile resembles Spider-Man.
The Sun reports the boldly colored male Mwanza Flat-headed Rock Agama, with its bright red head and blue body, is in such great demand that one online pet store is sold out until next month. (The female is brown.)
“The coloring is unbelievably similar, especially in the chest arms and legs,” comics retailer Rich Nunn told the tabloid. “I am sure there would be lots of comic fans who would want a lizard like this, because it looks so much like Spider-Man.”
However, the similarities don’t end with the colors: Spider Lizard can scale vertical walls and run uprights on its hind legs. That’s pretty much it, though, as I’m pretty sure Peter Parker doesn’t eat crickets or mealworms.

4 Comments
Wraith
September 21, 2009 at 1:01 pm
That is pretty dang cool. Am I the only one thinking “why did it take 45 years for anyone to notice this…?”
Dave
September 21, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Well Im pretty sure that he does eat Crickets, and Meal worms……
Alan Coil
September 21, 2009 at 2:36 pm
I’m not saying this is made up, but it sure sounds like it.
Ian Sutherland
September 22, 2009 at 4:30 pm
You’d think it was a photoshop job, but nooo…
http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id127464/
More pics on a biology site.
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