New Englanders were expecting to shovel their driveways after last weekend’s massive winter storm crawled across the region over a span of two days, though no one was likely expecting to find anything actually crawling out from under the nearly two feet of snow that fell.

Wildlife officials say a “lizard in a blizzard” has been rescued after a man discovered the large cold-blooded reptile buried in snow in Rhode Island, somehow surviving the frigid temperatures.