Definitions

1. Reptiles are tetrapods and amniotes, animals whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane, and members of the class Sauropsida.
2. Reptiles are cold-blooded animals which are warmed by the daylight sun and conserve energy by restricting activities when it is dark. (Web site)
3. Reptiles (such as iguanas and turtles) are particularly likely to harbor Salmonella. (Web site)
4. Reptiles are characterized by scales, lungs, and they produce an amniote egg which can be laid on dry land.
5. Reptiles are numerous, and the islands contain about 760 species of birds, including colorful parrots. (Web site)

Spiders

1. Arachnids and Reptiles of Europe Pictures and information about spiders and scorpions.

Intestinal Parasites

1. Adults are intestinal parasites of mammals, birds, fishes, amphibians, and reptiles. (Web site)

Parasites

1. Some species are parasites of birds, reptiles and amphibians. (Web site)

Captive

1. Description: Our mission is to find unwanted reptiles new homes and to care for sick or injured reptiles, captive or wild alike. (Web site)

Mice

1. They are voracious eaters, often eating insects, small mammals (such as mice), fish, other frogs, and small reptiles.

Classification

1. The reptiles were from the outset of classification grouped with the amphibians. (Web site)
2. Marine Reptiles Another interesting category in the classification of reptiles is marine reptiles.
3. Benton, M. J. 1985. Classification and phylogeny of the diapsid reptiles.

Phylum

1. This phylum accomplishes parasites of fishes, birds, amphibians, mammals, and reptiles.

Dogs

1. Excretory - Insects, reptiles, birds, and some dogs (Dalmatians) excrete uric acid. (Web site)
2. For example, reptiles and dogs appear to be potential risk factors for Salmonella and Campylobacter infections, respectively, in humans. (Web site)
3. The animals specially mentioned in the tradition as having been created by Kane were hogs (puaa), dogs (ilio), lizards or reptiles (moo).

Snails

1. Most reptiles, birds, as well as insects and snails solely excrete uric acid as nitrogenous waste. (Web site)

Molluscs

1. Mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects and molluscs were well represented. (Web site)

Feces

1. Salmonella is also found in feces of pet reptiles such as turtles, lizards, and snakes. (Web site)
2. Reptiles and birds eliminate uric acid with their feces. (Web site)

Cats

1. Intestinal parasites include worms and protozoa and are diagnosed on stool specimens primarily from dogs, cats, ferrets and reptiles. (Web site)
2. Analogous structures can be found in almost all mammals such as dogs, cats, and mice, though not in reptiles, which only possess a brain stem.
3. Shop for all of your pet supplies for dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles or small pets.

Skin

1. Reptiles such as turtles, lizards, and snakes, as they can carry the bacteria on their skin.
2. Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) regulates the activity of pigment-containing cells in the skin of some fishes, amphibians, and reptiles. (Web site)
3. Reptiles and fish have hard protective scales on their skin for protection, and birds have hard feathers, all made of tough β- keratins. (Web site)

Scales

1. Scutes are made up of a fibrous protein called keratin that also makes up the scales of other reptiles. (Web site)
2. Much like modern reptiles, there existed regional variations in the type and size of the scales that covered the mosasaurs. (Web site)

Rise

1. This line gave rise to modern reptiles (turtles, lizards, snakes, crocodiles), dinosaurs, and birds.
2. Evolution of the amniotic egg gives rise to the Amniota, reptiles, who can reproduce on land.
3. Instead I'll concentrate on the synapsid reptiles (which gave rise to mammals) and the archosaur reptiles (which gave rise to birds). (Web site)

Paleontologists

1. A reptilian fossil called Sinosauropteryx was found, but some paleontologists who examined the fossil said that it had bird feathers, unlike modern reptiles. (Web site)

Ancestor

1. Punga, a son of Tangaroa, has two children, Ikatere, father of fish and Tu-te-wehiwehi (or Tu-te-wanawana), the ancestor of reptiles.
2. The fact that they exist suggests that snakes evolved from a common ancestor with other reptiles, an ancestor that had legs.

Ancestors

1. The ancestors of mammals, called synapsids, split off from the ancestors of modern reptiles and birds about 350 million years ago.
2. The ancestors of mammals, called synapsid s, split off from the ancestors of modern reptiles and birds about 350 million years ago.

Kruger National Park

1. Enjoy a guided tour in the Kruger National Park, spotting various animals, birds, insects, reptiles and many different species of trees. (Web site)
2. Kruger National Park is home to hundreds of mammals, bird species, plants species and reptiles. (Web site)

Rodents

1. Although common house spiders feed primarily on insects, they may also consume larger spiders, scorpions, rodents and small reptiles. (Web site)

Primates

1. Big cats like the jaguar, cougar, and ocelot; primates (howler monkey); large reptiles (crocodiles), and a species of caiman.

Marine Mammals

1. A few species feed on other elasmobranchs, birds, reptiles or marine mammals [ 14, 15].
2. Before the emergence of marine mammals, several groups of giant reptiles ruled the seas. (Web site)
3. Vertebras Vertebras are marine mammals but also marine birds, marine reptiles, and - of course - marine fish.

Crabs

1. Preferred foods include crayfish, crabs, shellfish, reptiles, eggs (both bird and reptilian), and vegetation such as fruits, nuts, and berries.

Sharks

1. She found many important fossils, including Pterodactylus, sharks, and many other reptiles and fish. (Web site)
2. This in itself is no great feat in nature; many animals, including reptiles, birds and other sharks will lay unfertilized eggs. (Web site)
3. With the demise of marine reptiles at the end of the Cretaceous, sharks became the top predators. (Web site)

Evil Wizard

1. Skeletons, reptiles, apes, ghosts, and the evil wizard will all be waiting for Harris as you guide him through his adventure. (Web site)

Distinguishing Feature

1. Most paleontologists hold fossilized jaw remains to be the distinguishing feature used to classify synapsids and reptiles.

Poultry

1. Salmonella bacteria are very common on raw egg shells, in poultry, and red meat; it is also a natural part of the bacterial flora of reptiles and amphibians. (Web site)
2. Bacterial causes include traveler's diarrhea, food poisoning, handling undercooked meat or poultry, and handling reptiles with the bacteria.

Salmonellae

1. Salmonellae are especially likely to be carried by reptiles, birds, and wild rodents.

Fauna

1. The fauna was dominated by reptiles and especially by dinosaurs. (Web site)
2. The fauna was dominated by archosaurian reptiles, especially dinosaurs, which were at their most diverse.

Natural Habitats

1. In the eastern United States, tomatoes are grown in natural habitats for many known Salmonella reservoirs, including birds, amphibians, and reptiles.
2. Researchers in the field of ethology observe fish, reptiles, birds, insects, primates, and other animal species in their natural habitats. (Web site)

Mosasaur

1. To be precise: the mosasaur belonged to the class of reptiles, in the order of snakes and lizards, and to the family of mosasauridae. (Web site)
2. For example, it is thought that ammonites were the principal food of mosasaur s, a group of giant marine reptiles that became extinct at the boundary. (Web site)

Lower Jaw

1. The skulls of modern reptiles are sharply set off from those of mammals in many ways, but the clearest differences are in the lower jaw and adjacent regions.

Dentary

1. In mammals, each half of the lower jaw is a single bone called the dentary; whereas in reptiles, each half of the lower jaw is made up of three bones.

Plants

1. North America in the Age of Reptiles would have seemed almost as strange to our eyes in its geography as in its animals and plants.
2. Thus colloidal silver is absolutely safe for humans, reptiles, plants and all multi-celled living matter. (Web site)
3. While young earth texts mention the marine fossils, they ignore the terrestrial reptiles and plants (Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe, page 72). (Web site)

Golden Toad

1. Costa Rica is home to a wide variety of amphibians and reptiles, from the Red-eyed Tree Frog to the Emerald Basilisk and the Golden Toad.

Vertebrate Animals

1. The gill-arches of the fish exist in man, in dogs, in fowls, in reptiles, and in other vertebrate animals during the first stages of their development. (Web site)

Crustaceans

1. Chromatophores are pigment -containing and light-reflecting cells found in amphibians, fish, reptiles, crustaceans, and cephalopods.
2. In the wild, they eat insects, mollusks, millipedes, crustaceans, small fish, amphibians, reptiles, seed heads, grasses and crops like millet, corn and rice.
3. They were happily beginning their lives as aquatic reptiles, living amid beds of seaweed 20 to 40 miles from shore, snacking on sea plants and crustaceans.

Flamingos

1. Birds—including ostriches, flamingos, and vultures—abound in Kenya, as do reptiles such as pythons, mambas, and cobras. (Web site)

Numerous Species

1. There are numerous species of trees, shrubs and other flowering plants, as well as a gamut of mammals, avifauna, amphibians and reptiles.

Amnion

1. The amnion is a membranous sac which surrounds the embryo; it is developed in reptiles, birds and mammals, but not in amphibians or fishes. (Web site)

Metanephros

1. The metanephros will become the permanent functional kidney in adult birds, reptiles, and mammals. (Web site)

Mesonephros

1. In birds, reptiles and mammals, a third kidney develops posterior to the mesonephros, called the metanephros. (Web site)
2. In birds, reptiles, and mammals it replaces the mesonephros as the functional excretory organ and develops into the adult kidney. (Web site)

Larger Animals

1. But it is occasionally recorded in much larger animals, including some reptiles and amphibians.

External Parasites

1. Ticks are ectoparasites (external parasites), living by hematophagy on the blood of mammals, birds, and occasionally reptiles and amphibians.
2. Most are external parasites that require particular host species, mainly fish but in some cases amphibians or aquatic reptiles. (Web site)

Cretaceous Period

1. The Rise of The Mammals The extinction event at the close of the Cretaceous Period wiped out the dinosaurs, large reptiles, and many other species. (Web site)

Stapes

1. The amphibians, reptiles and aves show the stapes (developing from the second branchial arch). (Web site)

Categories

1. Life > Animals > Vertebrates > Mammals
2. Life > Animals > Tetrapods > Amphibians
3. Nature > Life > Animals > Birds
4. Places > Earth > Geology > Dinosaurs
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