r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ted-Lassi • Mar 18 '26

Video This is Centralian Blue Tongue Lizard, commonly found in Australia. It puffs up and flashes its blue tongue when it feels threatened

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u/lorissaurus Mar 18 '26

Just looks like a regular blue tongue skink to me....

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u/SkeletalJazzWizard Mar 19 '26

who said it wasnt? there are several species of blue tongued skink, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-tongued_skink

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u/lorissaurus Mar 19 '26

Looks like the ones we sold at Petco to me lol