Yax Lizard Yax Lizard The Yax lizard or Jacques lizard is a Chinese internet phenomenon related to the Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures. It mocks a musical dance program that excessively praised the Chinese government. The creature was supposedly a Komodo dragon. The name is derived from "yakexi" (), which is the Chinese transliteration of an Uyghur term "yaxshi" (), which means "good" or "great"; "xi" also means "lizard" in Chinese. It is named after the Xinjiang musical dance program "Happy life Yaxshi" (, formerly "The Party's Policy Yaxshi") in the CCTV Spring Festival's Gala 2010. In the program, singers and dancers sing
La Palma giant lizard La Palma giant lizard The La Palma giant lizard (Gallotia auaritae) is a giant lacertid historically living on the island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain); its habitat ranged from sea level up to altitudes of 800 m. It probably lives in xerophytic vegetation and is presumably an egg-laying species. Generally considered extinct in historic times, there were sightings (including photographic evidence) of a large lacertid in 2007 which may possibly correspond to this species, although these sightings have been assessed as doubtful. Working on fossil and subfossil evidence, this giant lizard was originally described as a subspecies of the