The Slow Worm. In fact they are legless lizards. Slow worms are carnivores which feed on invertebrates.
The slow worm may be the longest-living lizard living about 30 years in the wild and up to at least 54 years in captivity this record is held by a male slow worm that lived at the Copenhagen Zoo from 1892 until 1946 the age when first obtained is unknown. The slow worm which is also sometimes called the blind worm is a limbless member of the Anguidae family and is the reptile most commonly seen in the UK. Its heritage dates all the way back to the late Cretaceous period c66-100 million years ago.
Sharon Stilliard has been volunteering with the Wildlife Trust for nearly 15 years and was a joint winner of the 2021 Oliver Rackham Award at this years AGM.
In fact they are legless lizards. Despite their forked yet flat tongue their eyelids are a giveaway that these reptiles are lizards. The slow worm also called blindworm is in Danish called stålorm meaning steel worm. The slow worm may be the longest-living lizard living about 30 years in the wild and up to at least 54 years in captivity this record is held by a male slow worm that lived at the Copenhagen Zoo from 1892 until 1946 the age when first obtained is unknown.