RADICAL REPTILES

Reptile Characteristics

Ectothermic Vertebrates ~ Cold blooded with a backbone. Organisms temperature varies with outside temperature.

Best sense is sightHave dry scaly skin, no hair or feathers3 chambered heart (except crocodilians – have 4)Breathe with lungs5 Claws on their legs (except snakes and legless lizards)Amniotic egg ~ first animals to lay eggs on land

Estuarine Crocodile (Saltwater Croc)

British Virgin Island Gecko

Spiny-Tailed Iguana

Anaconda (wrapped around Caiman)

Reticulated Python

310 lbs 30 feet long constrictor

Black Mamba, Taipan, Krait

Black Mamba ~ fastest moving snake

Taipan ~ Australia

Banded Krait ~ one of the most posionous

Komodo Dragon/Komodo Island

Leatherback Turtle

Leatherbacks are endangered and highly studied. Scientists are trying to learn all about them to help save them and restore their populations

Gila Monster and Beaded Lizard

Horned Lizards