Reptiles of Asia

Stingrays has been around for more than a 100 millions years. Stingrays have a many unique features like there skeleton, it has cartilages instead of bone. However thats not what so dangerous they have a very venomous tail. They fire their tail forward with alot of force and will release the poison when pierces the skin. There eyes are right on top of their body but they don't use them for hunting prey. They don't eat so very much and they eat anything living and small. They are very lazy and…

What is a small blue frog that is poisonous? The blue poison dart frog of course. Blue poison dart frogs are very interesting animals. They are interesting because they are the most poisonous type of frogs. The animal I chose is the blue poison dart frog also known as the Azureus. The phylum it belongs to is Chordata. Characteristics of the Chordata phylum are: most have vertebrates in other words animals with a backbone, they live in water for part of their life, they have no…

Ichthyosaurs, or fish-lizards, are fish-shaped reptiles that lived in our oceans 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic period. Paleontologists discovered the first fossils in the early 1800s, far before dinosaurs were ever discovered. This genus evolved from animals that lived on land. They had more than eighty different species in their genus. One species of the ichthyosaurs is the Ophthalmosaurus. As an adult, this creature was two times the size of a human with a tooth filled snout.…

What makes an animal good? Is it their benefit to the ecosystem, their evolved skills, or how nice they are to look at? In all three categories the victor may be surprising. Snakes. Snakes are amazing, talented, and gorgeous. Their ecologic benefits are rooted in their prey, as I’m sure you know, snakes eat mice and rats. If snakes were less talented they wouldn’t be able to catch the rats, or even the harmful insects they keep at bay. Then the prey would multiply and eat until its food source…

Around the world today leatherback sea turtles are being killed at an alarming rate due to a variety of circumstances. From the commercial fishing industry to poaching, the population of this species has declined significantly over the past fifty years. However, there are ways to prevent this downward spiral. Through an educational approach, marine biologists and environmentalists should collaborate to form a nonprofit group to protect leatherback sea turtles throughout the world. Dermochelys…

modern terrestrial vertebrates. It is believed by some that dinosaurs could have been ectothermic and that they had a better vo2 max than modern reptiles. This theory can be disregarded because even though dinosaur respiratory systems are not well understood the five largest dinosaurs would have needed 30-90 times greater vo2 max at rest than modern reptiles. Even during slow running the estimated aerobic power for large dinosaurs was 100-500% above the ectothermic maximum for aerobic power. An…

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The endangered species I chose to talk about in my summary is the Green Turtle. The scientific name for a green turtle is Chelonia Mydas which is also a chelonian which means they have four legs and a tough shell that is made up of two parts which join at the sides. The green turtle is one of the largest sea turtles in the world and the only herbivore. Green turtles are of course named after their green color of their body and shell. Green turtles are mainly found in tropical and subtropical…

creature that swims all over the world to share its beauty. The green sea turtle has been around for over one hundred million years. Not only is this creature beautiful, but also has many other outstanding features to share with the world. These reptiles are remarkable for their strong sense of navigation and direction and can come back to the same beach that they nested months, even years ago, to lay more eggs. Green sea turtles travel numerous miles over the world discovering all sorts of…

In the articles titled “After Spill, Sea Turtles Still Swimming” and “For The Turtles”, they both are about the ways that people are helping turtles stay alive. However, “After Spill, Sea Turtles Still Swimming” is better at achieving its purpose. This is shown in the “After Spill, Sea Turtles Still Swimming” by Achieve 3000 and it states, “To that end, the eggs at NPS's lab are monitored 24 hours a day. Once hatching begins, Shaver sleeps on a cot in her office, caring for the tiny turtles as…