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Anguinae

Subfamily of reptiles

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Eastern Glass Lizard at Airlie Gardens, Wilmington, NC
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Evolution

They first appeared in Europe during the early Eocene, approximately 48.6 million years ago, originating from North American ancestors that crossed over from Greenland via the Thule Land Bridge and spread toward Asia sometime after the drying of the Turgai Strait at the beginning of the Oligocene, and then across the Bering Land Bridge to North America during the Miocene.

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