Squamata

orange vertical bars” (soft schools- interesting red-sided garter snake facts”. The snake is not found much because natural disaster kill them easily. The red-sided garter snakes “kingdom is animalia, phylum is chordata, class is reptilia, order is squamata, suborder is serpentes, family colubridae, genus is thamnophis, and species is t. Sirtalis” ( wikipedia- scientific classification). Garter snakes have adapted to many ecosystems, there are thirty different types of garter snakes that…

When Julius Caesar rule the Ancient Rome, swords were commonly not used only in the army, but also by civilians to protect themselves. Which had lead to death of Caesar because senators bought daggers to the congress secretly. In addition, the civilized armor and weapons of the Roman army had lead to Pax Romana, which means “the success of the Rome”. Individual Roman soldiers bought weapons with their money and carried a variety of weapons for different circumstances. In hand to hand combat…

Title/short summary The rattlesnake lives in many places and habitats throughout the Western Hemisphere including deserts, plains and mountains. There are 24 different species of rattlesnake, and its average lifespan lasts anywhere from 10 to 20 years. A rattlesnake’s diet usually consists of lizards and small rodents including mice, rats, squirrels or rabbits. It measures around 5 to 6 feet long and approximately 5 pounds and often takes several years to mature. Natural predators of…

Lizards belong in a large class of animals called Reptilia, which contains over 8225 species. Reptiles are animals that are ectothermic (cold-blooded) vertebrates that breathe air. Most reptiles are oviparous (egg-laying) animals with the exception of some ovoviviparous (live-bearing) constrictor snakes and vipers, as well as a few lizard species. They are also theropods, vertebrate animals that have four limbs or are descended from animals with four limbs. Deciphering the lizard classification…

HERPETOLOGY ASSIGNMENT 2 1. List the scientific and common names of 2 different species of crocodilians, and produce a series of 10 bullet points below the name, listing interesting and important facts that relate to each of those species. Species 1 - American Alligator, Mississippi Alligator, Pike-headed alligator, "gator" (Alligator mississippiensis) (Britton 2009a) Picture: Figure 1 - Alligator mississippiensis(Hillman 2004) 1. Alligator mississippiensis of the order Crocodylia and the…