- What Makes a Dinosaur a Dinosaur - Fossils and Paleontology . . .
What makes a dinosaur a dinosaur? There are several ways of answering this question, some more accurate (and useful!) than others A popular but very inaccurate definition calls any big extinct reptile-like animal a dinosaur This would include everything from the sail-backed mammal cousin Dimetrodon, to marine reptiles, to flying pterosaurs
- IUCN Red List - Wikipedia
The IUCN assessed a total of 63,837 species which revealed 19,817 are threatened with extinction [20] 3,947 were described as "critically endangered" and 5,766 as "endangered", while more than 10,000 species are listed as "vulnerable" [21]
- Understanding the motivations of beginner reptile owners
The RSPCA commissioned independent research to better understand owners of commonly-kept reptiles: who they are; what species they are buying; what journey they take to acquire their reptiles; and
- Researchers identify ichthyosaur that may be the largest . . .
Palaeontologists have identified what may be the largest known marine reptile A father and daughter found the fossilised remains of a gigantic jawbone measuring more than two metres long on a
- Regulating Body Temperature
One of the main reasons lizards will puff out their throats is to look bigger and more imposing to potential predators or competitors By inflating their throat area, lizards can appear much larger than their actual size\ b> \ p>\n This can help intimidate an approaching predator and cause it to think twice before attacking
- Scales and Tails - Zoocheck
Reptiles are a Class of vertebrate animals comprised of more than 6,600 species worldwide The other Classes of vertebrate animals are fish, amphibians, birds and mammals The Class Reptilia is divided into four Orders of living reptiles They are the Chelonia (turtles, tortoises and terrapins), Squamata (lizards and snakes), Crocodylia
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