The slow worm is neither a snake nor a worm but a legless lizard. Its round tongue and moving eyelids put it in the lizard category.
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TRANSCRIPT
- [Narrator] No snakes had ever managed to make the journey to Ireland.
Today, this strange creature is as close as it gets.
A legless lizard called a slow worm.
It's round tongue and moving eyelids put it in the lizard camp as snakes don't blink.
Quite how the slow worm reached the Burren no one knows.
A non-native, it's only been discovered here in the last century.
A ruthless predator, the slow worm has mastered the art of hunting slowly.
Beware any creature that comes in range of this speed demon.
