Reptiles of Asia

With their scaly bodies, slit eyes, and long tails, alligators and crocodiles look a lot like dinosaurs. In fact, alligators and crocodiles descending from the same family as dinosaurs while it’s true that alligators and crocodiles look a lot alike, they differ in three ways. First, alligators and crocodiles are found in different parts of the world. Alligators are found in China, Central America, and South America. On the other hand. Crocodiles are found in Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, India, Cuba, and the West Indies. Only in the southern United States were both alligators and crocodiles found. Nonetheless, in all cases, alligators and crocodiles live in hot, tropical regions. Reptiles are cold-blooded. So, if the temperature is below…

common names. In both appearance and range, these species are diverse even as they are all native to Asia: 1. Cyclemys dentata (Asian leaf turtle, aka Brown stream terrapin); 2. Cyclemys tcheponensis (Stripe-necked leaf turtle); 3. Geoemyda spengleri (Black-breasted leaf turtle or Chinese leaf turtle, aka Vietnamese Wood Turtle); 4. Mauremys (Annamemys) annamensis (Vietnamese or Annam leaf turtle, aka Vietnamese Pond Turtle); 5. Siebenrockiella crassicollis (Borneo black leaf turtle, aka…

The Burmese python can grow up to a length of 23 feet and weigh up to about 200 pounds. In South Florida these astonishingly enormous snakes can be found in parks, backyards, or even a person's house! The Burmese pythons were not brought here by mistake. When the python gets too large, some pet owners will let their python free. Burmese pythons have invaded Florida’s ecosystem in the Everglades. The Burmese python has an extraordinary lifestyle. All snakes are cold blooded reptiles.…

With their quickly swiveling eyes and vibrantly pigmented skin, chameleons are incredible animals to study. There are numerous species that can be found across multiple continents. Much is known about these lizards, yet just when scientists believe they have these riveting reptiles figured out, they learn even more about them. Chameleons are interesting animals to study because they have distinctive physical features in addition to color changing abilities, and they vary from species to…

Snakes are lengthy, carnivorous reptiles without legs, protected with scales, have sharp fangs and venom inside it. There are numerous different types of snakes and these include king cobra, python, rattlesnake, and anaconda. Snakebites can be extremely lethal particularly because of their deadly venom. Every year, you will find around 7, 000 poisonous snake bites scenarios that are being documented in America. Apart from being deadly, snake bites may also result in allergic response and…

Why snakes don’t have legs A long long long time ago in a rainforest that is located in Brazil lived two snakes. One was named Billy Bob and the other was named Susan Jilly. Every morning they would crawl around in the mud since it felt amazing to them. One day there was no rain to come to Brazil and a drought happened. Billy Bob and Susan Jilly did not know what this drought meant for them, As they were swimming in the mud Susan Jilly crawled out of the mud and curled up on a leaf and watched…

“Hunting Snake” written by Judith Wright and “Pike” written by Ted Hughes are two poems about nature and animals. Hunting Snake has four stanzas and Pike has eleven stanzas. The animals in the Hunting Snake and Pike seem to be similar animals as they hunt in similar ways by being slow, quiet and pouncing to surprise the animal. Both of the poets write about their encounters with hunting animals, a hunting snake and a pike fish. Judith writes about a “big black snake” in nature hunting like in…

1 Six guardian and beneficent snakes at Edfu temple Ahmed KhalafAllah Safina∗ The scope of this paper is limited to the discussion of some lesser known aspects of six snakes at Edfu temple1. I aim with this paper to develop the understanding of these elusive beings through the examination of their nature, roles, names, and epithets. These snakes originally belonged to subordinate deities2 that had a beneficial and protective role with regard to Horus of Behdety…

Among some of the earliest of dinosaurs to evolve, Unaysaurus tolentenoi was a prosauropod found in the Caturrita formation in what is now Brazil. In life, it would have reached lengths of up to 2.5 meters (about 8 feet) long, weighed up to 70 kilograms (about 154 pounds) and, reached a height of about 80 centimeters (about 2’ 7”). Its genus name means “black water lizard” while the species name comes from Tolentino Marafiga, who discovered the remains on the side of the road. Being the…

likes it’s habitat dry so it absorb more heat, because they are cold blooded. They also move to areas that match their scale colors, for better hunting. In some places if you mess with a diamondback, you'll either get killed by the snake or be scolded by the park rangers If you are caught in the path of a diamondback slowly back off, making no movements towards it. Most diamondback attacks end up in 98% death. Best places to avoid the is somewhere damp. I chose this animal because it is one of…