The Slow Worm. Adults slow worms reach 40 to 45 cm 16 to 18 inches in body length. And they move very fast.
Adults are typically gray-brown to copper in color while juveniles are pale gold or silver with dark sides and ventral coloration. The slow worm is a greyish brown lizard even though they are often mistaken for snakes. Slow worm and survey kit.
To get away from the predators that come after them they make their movement smoother by dropping their tails low as they move away.
Find out how she got involved with volunteering for us and the various projects she has helped with over the years. These legless lizards are also sometimes called common slowworms. At the end a small notch divides the tongue in to two parts but it is not the deep fork seen in snakes. The Slow Worm Anguis fragilis is commonly mistaken for a Snake it is however a legless lizard.