A suborder of limbless or short-limbed lizards that includes legless lizards and slowworms, characterized by snake-like body structures.
From Latin 'anguis' (snake) plus Greek 'morpha' (form or shape), literally meaning 'snake-like in form.' This scientific term describes reptiles that look and move like snakes but are actually lizards with modified limbs.
Anguimorphs are a perfect example of convergent evolution—they're lizards that evolved to look and move like snakes because that body shape works so well for hunting in narrow spaces, proving that evolution solves problems the same way across different animal groups!
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