Red Worm Lizard

• Its name comes from the amphisbaena of Greek mythology, a creature with a head at each end: the tail is as blunt as the head and the animal moves with equal ease in either direction, which makes it very hard to tell which way it will go.
• It often lives inside the nests of leafcutter ants, feeding on insects and on the nest's waste without the ants attacking it.
• It is neither snake nor lizard: the amphisbaenians form a group of squamate reptiles of their own, with the skull reinforced for digging and the body ringed, and with more than two hundred species worldwide.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (reptile)

Habitat and environment

Floor of rainforest, leafcutter ant nests and secondary forest of South America

Sexual maturity

2 years

Gestation / incubation

90 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

12 eggs

Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Amphisbaena alba