reptile

     

Reptiles are air-breathing, col-blooded vertebrates that have skin covered in scales as opposed to hair or feathers. They are tetrapods (having or having descended from vertebrates with four limbs) and amniotes, whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane. Modern reptiles inhabit every continent with the exception of Antarctica, and are represented by four living orders:

Trivia about reptile

  • A cold-blooded vertebrate
  • The gila monster
  • With more than 4,300 species, lizards make up the largest living group of this animal class
  • The name of this class of cold-blooded creatures comes from a word for "to creep"
  • The caiman
  • The gecko
  • The adder
  • The basilisk
  • The caiman

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