Glass Lizard Glass Lizard, any of a genus of lizards named for the hard, highly polished scales that ring the legless body. Glass lizards are found in Eurasia and the Americas.
Color varies with species.
Glass lizards feed mainly on insects. They have a fragile tail that is longer than the body and breaks off easily to distract predators. The tail later grows back. Even though it is legless, the glass lizard is not a snake, but a lizard. In true lizard fashion, it will lose its long tail when it is tugged, but unlike other lizards, its tail literally shatters into pieces.