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These flying reptiles were covered with thin filaments that may have looked something like the down on this pheasant chick.

To Virginia Tech biologist Jake Socha, these curious reptiles are something of a biomechanical wonder.

However, the Mesozoic is best known as the age of reptiles, when dinosaurs and their kin dominated the continents.

He said he was confident he would avoid getting bitten by the deadly reptiles but said he did not want to be helped if he got into trouble.

Looking at it closely, I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air.

So what we're trying to piece together here is a story. It involves flying reptiles like this Pterosaur that we reconstructed from Africa.

For the reptiles, this time of plenty is all too brief.

For, until recently, no one had actually thought to ask by experimentation just how intelligent reptiles really are.

Reptiles specifically have an insane amount of detail and texture almost everywhere you look and it's fascinating to see that up close.

Reptiles and amphibians can be found all over the world in a number of different climates.

Tens of thousands of fungal species infect reptiles, amphibians and other cold-blooded animals, but only a few hundred harm mammals.

In which were all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and birds of heaven.

It's basically a defense against birds, reptiles, amphibians, that sort of thing.

The dinosaurs and numerous other reptiles which had previously been dominant were extinct.

This reptiles lays about fifty eggs in a nest hastily made of rubbish and vegetation or buries them in the sand.

Reptiles might also experience REM, and some scientists argue that our mammalian dreaming might be a holdover from our reptilian brains.

And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood.

So tens of thousands of fungi can infect reptiles and amphibians, but we can only be invaded by a few hundred fungi.

To make sure the perspex cage attracts the monster reptiles' attention, chunks of meat are tied to the bottom.

Barak makes most of her income by showing off her plants, which eat everything from insects and reptiles to small mammals and schnitzel.

We know that autoeroticism is widespread among mammals and that it turns up in birds and reptiles, too.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Dinosaurs may have had high resting metabolic rates like birds and mammals, or low resting rates like reptiles.

so , something that everyone of you must be capable to do to save reptiles - only buy captive - bred reptiles and have them legally.

But unlike insects that often fall prey to reptiles, scientists have observed one particular species of bug eating snakes and a turtle.

By 300 million years ago, large forests and swamps covered the land, and the earliest fossils of reptiles appear during this period as well.

we then saw the reptiles-snakes, crocodiles, that sort of thing.

Most fish, reptiles and amphibians undergo a limited physiological colour change in response to a change in environment.

He had been following the development of gill arches, swellings around the base of the embryonic head, in mammals and reptiles.

With no mammalian carnivores, birds and reptiles faced less competition for food, accounting for some of their massive size.

Police accused a local trafficker of torturing kidnap victims with the reptiles, which are native to parts of Rio de Janeiro.

For instance, a major survey of North American reptiles has bumped up the region's Red List reptile species to a total of 738.

This ancient biological structure, which evolved in reptiles, isn't capable of nuanced emotion or logical thought.

Barak believes that physical contact with the reptiles can be a soothing experience.

Dr Haussler wants to sequence 10, 000 vertebrates, a sixth of the total number of species of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Though it is true that these tropical reptiles can change color, they do not have the full range of the rainbow at their disposal.

The reptiles , one of a number of cobra species that live in India, are revered as incarnations of gods.

They were followed by the emergence of fish, reptiles, mammals, ferns, conifers and flowering plants.

Reptiles, dinosaurs, and mammals appeared within the next 100 million years.

It also meant that in contrast to the amphibians the reptiles lay fewer eggs, they had no larval stage and fertilization was internal.

Reptiles body structure and physiological functions more than amphibians can adapt to the terrestrial life environment.

Volcanic eruptions regularly convulsed the area at the time, entombing untold millions of reptiles, fish, snails and insects in ash.

Because dinosaurs were reptiles, and modern reptiles are not endotherms, it was long assumed that dinosaurs were not endotherms.

Firstly I analyse of the wildlife's habits and needs, by categorizing as mammals, fishes, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects.

This accessory is simply irreplaceable at the sea shore, among jellyfish and local reptiles.

Reptiles are cold - blooded , so they like to warm themselves in the sun .

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images that looked like mortal human beings, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.

It is considered the cradle of an uncountable number of species, mostly birds, fishes and reptiles.

Dr. Leal said he hoped the study would lead to more investigations into the cognitive abilities of reptiles.

Land fauna is sparse, but even a shallow snorkel swim offshore reveals bountiful sponges, corals, crustaceans, reptiles and marine mammals.

Reptiles skin leather, vegetable pre-tanned, without hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared.

A 7 - year - old boy was shot on his closed-circuit television in an Australian zoo slaughtered rare reptiles.

Ichthyosaurs also resembled cetaceans in another way: unlike most living reptiles, which lay eggs, they gave birth to live young.

Virgin birth among reptiles, especially primitive ones like boas, they argue may be far more common than expected.

Each kind of mammals, birds and most reptiles, amphibians animals and fish are in need of sleep to maintain normal life activities.

Scientists show that fishes and reptiles existed before the age of man.

either of two amphibious reptiles with shorter broader snouts than crocodiles.

THE Mesozoic land was dominated by dinosaurs. At sea, though, the most abundant reptiles were the ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.

In the Ordovician, Silurian Period, the Devonian, Carboniferous, the advent of low amphibians and ancient ancient reptiles.

Heavy and ungainly out of water, these reptiles are supremely well adapted swimmers.

It is quite a rare thing in mammals, but common in birds, reptiles, and fish.

The snake now joins a list of declining populations of animals, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

The brain is a complex combination of neocortex (unique to humans) and older structures inherited from mammals and reptiles.

a division of Triassic Therapsida comprising small carnivorous tetrapod reptiles often with mammal-like teeth.

Snakes now join a list of declining animal populations that includes fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Breeds in arid steppe or semi-desert, also in mountains (Africa). Food small mammals, reptiles, insects. Nests often on cliff-ledge.

A platypus (duckbill) is an amazing animal. Its genes come from birds, mammals and reptiles.

The dinosaurs were the reptiles that inhibited the Earth before the appearance of man and died out.

Other reptiles skin leather, without hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared.

The main groups of vertebrates are: fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Whenwaking in a cold environment, reptiles are sluggish and require an external heat source to become active and responsive.

Reptiles wet-blue leather, without hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared.

Definitive evidence of interactions between prehistoric marine reptiles is rare.

Centuries of monsoon rains, insects and tiny reptiles crawling over them, rushing away the grains of color.

You eat almost anything, which, especially if you are in Guangdong, includes a variety of mammals, reptiles, and insects.

They are the home for myriads of insects, birds, reptiles, animals and storehouses of diverse natural wealth.

Herpesviruses descended from a strain that once infected a common ancestor of mammals, birds and reptiles.

Today , London Zoo houses a wonderful range of reptiles, fish , invertebrates, birds and mammals.

Our main products lines are LED lamps, aquarium lamp, Heating lamp and lighting for pets, cages and terrarium for reptiles.

Pterosaur bones have similar features, as do those of several other groups of Mesozoic reptiles.

Another group of reptiles, until recently neglected, were also important carnivores.

Imagine the ancestors of birds as small, scaly, four-legged reptiles living in forest canopies, leaping from tree to tree.

Fresh mainly small fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and crustaceans in the shallow water animals.

Simultaneously, slideshows and live reptiles were demonstrated for watching closely and even touching properly.

'They are such reptiles! ' he thought.

But the mongoose soon found tastier morsels: native mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects and birds.

"When they got here this was thick forest and swamp, populated by reptiles, " says Chief Emeka Dike.

The cloaca is the all-purpose body cavity that reptiles and birds use for copulation, urination, and defecation.

Pet vendors will also offer a variety of dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters , birds and, reptiles for sale.

Under the pressures of urbanisation, larger animal species are rarely seen, but reptiles, amphibians, birds and insects are still common.

This group of large-bodied reptiles is characterized by elongate snouts and relatively small orbits.

Perhaps the least controversial assertion about the pterosaurs is that they were reptiles.

Previously, the oldest known fossils of animals in which the sperm fertilized eggs internally were reptiles dating back 200m years.

For the arboreal reptiles and amphibians, to create a three-dimensional habitat.

Contrary to what we would expect of reptiles, the leatherback turtle is actually warm-blooded.

so the reptiles conserve their energy by barely moving at all.

We've already mapped about 60 skeletons in a very small area; it's the biggest locality of marine reptiles in the world.

The expedition recorded 17 species of seabird, four species of dolphins and five marine reptiles including two species of marine turtle.

At sea, though, the most abundant reptiles were the ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.

He was astonished to find that two of the ear bones in mammals corresponded to pieces of the jaw in reptiles.

A small stone found in the stomach of some reptiles, fish, and birds that aids in digestion by helping grind ingested food material.

If you look at the drawings of ancient cultures in Egypt, South America, and North America, you will see signs of the birds and reptiles.

The spiny reptiles, about 30 inches (80 cm) long, are confined to small islands off the coast of New Zealand.

" Pterosaur " refers to the order that these ancient reptiles belong to, and they were the first flying vertebrates.

Species similar to those at whale falls may have depended on dead marine reptiles for hundreds of millions of years.

Based on the features of resources, the countermeasures of long-lasting development for the amphibians and reptiles are put forward.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

This and later fossil evidence for viviparity in marine reptiles and early mammals is reviewed.

For nearly 200 million years, the gigantic reptiles had ruled the Earth without challenge. Then, seemingly overnight, they vanished.

Making the Jundland Wastes all the more dangerous are immense reptiles stalking the craggy canyons in search of prey.

And then there are ancient Aboriginal cultures, dazzling salt pans, secretive reptiles, rough-cut canyons and pristine gorges.

Banks Lake is also home to a wide variety of reptiles and birds.

Australia is home to nearly one million animal species, including 80 percent of the world's mammals and 90 percent of its reptiles.

They had five vertebrae (backbones) connected to the hips, not two like living reptiles .

Run a quick Google search for the types of reptiles and amphibians most commonly found in your area.

The show strives to include all types of pets, anything from dogs &cats, to reptiles and other small caged exotics .

Perhaps no other group of animals has caught mankind's imagination like reptiles .

and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

About 11% of salmonella illnesses in children are thought to stem from contact with lizards, turtles and other reptiles, Pickering said.

Its tibias were stouter and fibulas more bent than those of most reptiles.

All manner of reptiles gave their skins to the handbag cause, including eels.

All studies in reptiles and amphibians (e. g. tortoises) give negative results - there are no dreams in their sleep.

lethargic, gigantic reptiles that were slow and sluggish.

This creature can be subsumed in the class of reptiles.

Our dog supplements and pet products are fed to our personal pets that include dogs, horses, reptiles, birds, etc.

Green sea turtles are reptiles whose ancestors evolved onland and took to the sea to live about 150 million years ago.

Others, like Ichthyosaurus (fish lizard), look similar[2] to dolphins, but were reptiles not mammals.

I want you to [cast] off your preconceptions, your preconceived fears and thoughts about reptiles.

Early reptiles were well placed to capitalize on the new environment.

Most of the other fossils come from rhynchosaurs (parrot- beaked reptiles).

Reptiles, amphibians and related animals are welcome to our general meetings and events.

In fact, their brains closely resemble those of modern reptiles.

Nest temperature determines the sex of offspring for many reptiles.

Two animals, two iconic reptiles really captivated me very early on.

periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles.

It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air.

These you may know, all the reptiles are according to the URL connection for take page climb.

The greenhouse warming and the acid rain also did for the forests and many of the reptiles.

Snakes turtles and crocodiles are reptiles.

a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians.

a family of reptiles of the order Pelycosauria.

The reconciled reptiles rest on a fragile tile .

These identical chromosomes were found some 300 million years ago in reptiles, long before mammals arose.

mammals have, by and large, bigger brains than reptiles.

There was big stuff back then. 55 species of mammal-like reptiles.

In addition, champsosaur ribs are short and massive, as in other aquatic reptiles.

That is why, they believe, most animals -- mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish -- produce their young and multiply in spring.

Mexico is major nesting area for the reptiles.

Long before Man lived on the Earth , there were fishes , reptiles, birds, insects, and some mammals.

As many as 93% of reptiles and 87% of mammal species on the island continent are found there and nowhere else.

Zoology The excretory opening of the digestive tract in animals such as birds. reptiles. amphibians. and fish.

Such as insects, mollusks , fish cartilage, the end of amphibians, reptiles and birds of fertilization.

they don't. Most reptiles are at the top.

At the same time, conservation and management suggestions about amphibians and reptiles were proposed in the paper.

Reptiles were never frightening to him, only fun.

They are commonly depicted as large flying reptiles that breathe fire or shoot deadly poison from their nostrils.

Fish and reptiles are more likely to change sex than are mammals or birds.

Turtles are reptiles with shells.

Such reptiles, in fact, lived several million years before the first dinos emerged.

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The reptiles first appear in the fossil record around 98 million years ago, Wilson said.

Reptiles possess a scaly, dry skin .

It into the water to swim, landing can climb, fat, called the "king" of reptiles.

Other vertebrates such as fish, reptiles and birds have red cells that contain nuclei that are inactive.

"We have this very simplistic view of reptiles, " said Shine.

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emerge from the eggs; of birds or reptiles.

Are most reptiles afraid of cats? Yes.

Both it and fragments of another equally colossal specimen he unearthed are some of the largest sea reptiles of their kind known to science.

But birds don't have 'em, nor do reptiles or fish.

Still is it vain to teach the reptiles philosophy; for all such labor is "like pouring water in a frog's face. "

Some reptiles live in swamps while others inhabit desert regions.

Reptiles often live in deserts where other animals would starve.

In addition, some species, especially reptiles, are hunted or reared for their hides.

Reptiles and birds are Kunsheng, but platypus is totally different, it is a kind of egg-laying mammals.

At one time, the birds and the reptiles worked together, and at other times they fought.

Then the earth's climate is warm, the thick forest and reptiles had enough food, gradually flourish, more and more kinds.

In 2005 there were nearly 88, 000 mammals, 1. 3 million reptiles and 203 million fish imported illegally into the United States.

Some reptiles can regrow their tails when they are cut away.

Reptiles got to stick together, right, my brother?

This is probably because of competition from reptiles and dinosaurs, who dominated the ecosystem.

The tortoise and the eagle of the tortoise is the reptiles, but want to learn to fly, the results were dashed.

The Giant Toad and Andean Iguana are some examples of reptiles.

A majority of them will die , of course . There is very high mortality in little baby reptiles who are just 10 to 12 inches long.

While baboons are known to eat reptiles, birds and some mammals such as hares, they have never before been recorded eating bats.

Most reptiles carry salmonella bacteria, for example.

These are mammal-like reptiles.

First, the reptiles had to learn how to extract a tasty grub from a container.

The park is home to 114 species of mammals, 340 kinds of birds, 111 types of reptiles, 18 species of amphibians and several kinds of fish.

Many reptiles and amphibians also critically endangered, while up to 70% of plants could be wiped out, say conservationists

The CDC recommends that homes with kids under 5 years old not include reptiles .

General average life expectancy crocodile as 150 years old, is very long reptiles. Life expectancy (turtle is the longest) 152.

Other reptiles, for human consumption (including domesticated and artificially propagated)

It does not appear to be directly linked to more modern reptiles

To save reptiles amphibians directly by hands-on actions and fundamentally by education;

An unfortunate, enchanted, Outstretched hands groping futilely, Looking for the light and the key, To flee a place filled with reptiles;

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to be laid in the cold grave, a prey to corruption and the reptiles of the earth;

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Generic differences between birds and reptiles;

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And I want to hear the sound of giant reptiles belching

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Appendix 1 List and distribution of reptiles in the Yangtze River Basin

Fish, live reptiles and live poultry

The animal joins more than 200 legless lizard species and about 50 other new reptiles discovered worldwide in the past decade

You have giant reptiles swimming in the ocean, flying reptiles

Pterosaurs are flying reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, between 210 million and 65 million years ago

The development of biological research in principal freshwater reptiles cultivated in China