tell some interesting facts about reptiles.
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REPTILES:
- Reptiles breathe air.
- Reptiles are covered in scales or have a bony external plate such as a shell.
- All reptiles are cold blooded.The first reptiles are believed to have evolved around 320 million years ago.
- The size of reptile’s brains relative to their body is much smaller than that of mammals.
- Reptiles use a variety of methods to defend themselves from dangerous situations, such as avoidance, camouflage, hissing and biting.
- These animals possess dry skin, with scales and mostly live in warmer regions.
- They lay eggs with tough covering on land and do not lay eggs in water like amphibians.
- Lungs are the respiratory organs.
- Most of them have three chambered heart except crocodile, which has four chambered heart.
SOME CONTROVERSEY EXAMPLE AND FACTS ABOUT IT:-
- Crocodiles,alligators,Turtles,tortoises,Lizards and snakes are reptiles.
- Lizard and snake species make up the largest number of different reptiles.
- Tuataras found in New Zealand are reptiles.
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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT REPTILES :::
✳The reptiles are first to have dry and cornified skin.
✳The skin consists of epidermal scales or scutes.
✳kidneys are metanephric type..
✳They have special type of organs called "JACOBSON'S ORGAN ".
✳These organ is present in roof of buccal cavity. concerned with smell.
✳This organ is well developed in snakes and lizards..
✳Reptiles are poikilotherms or cold blooded..
✳Skull is monocondylic (with one occipital condyle)
ABOUT REPTILES :
✳The class reptiles refer to the creeping and crawling mode of locomotion.
✳Heart is generally three chambered but crocodile have four -chambered heart
✳They have 12 pairs of cranial nerves.
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