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4 unusual facts about Reptile


Elizabethan Lizard

Their artistic aesthetic focuses mainly on a comical mixture of Elizabethan era clothing and Reptiles.

Evilhawk

Evilhawk is a reptilian alien from the planet Luq with an android body.

Kedarnath Wild Life Sanctuary

Reptile species recorded are: Himalayan pit viper (Gloydius himalayanus syn. Ancistrodon himalayanus) (common) and Boulenger's keelback (Amphiesma parallelum).

Star General

The seven races include the deceitful Cephalians, the reptilian Dragonians, the feline Hressa, the Humans, the barbarian Khalians, the insectoid Xritra, and fascist human separatists who belong to the Schleinel Hegemony.


Adda bar Ahavah

Rab Adda's said: "The man who is conscious of sin and confesses it, but does not turn away from it, is like the man who holds a defiling reptile in his hand; were he to bathe in all the waters of the world, the bath would not restore him to cleanness. Only when he drops it from his hand, and bathes in but forty seahs (about 100 gallons) of water he is clean." (Babylonian Talmud Taanit 16a; compare Tosefta Taanit 1:8.)

Aleksi Sihvonen

Aleksi features on Scottish metal band Hellbound 's first EP, along with Heikki Saari of Norther. He features on the songs Misanthropy and Drug Thirsty Reptile.

Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust

Amphibian and Reptile Conservation is a British wildlife charity formed in July 2009 by the Herpetological Conservation Trust.

Belemnoidea

In turn, belemnites appear to have formed part of the diet of marine reptiles such as Ichthyosaurs, whose fossilized stomachs frequently contain phosphatic hooks from the arms of cephalopods.

Carey Blyton

Crumhorns were used in Doctor Who and the Silurians as a theme for the reptile men and in his final score for the series, Revenge of the Cybermen in 1975, he made use of serpents and ophicleides whenever the Cybermen appeared.

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden

In 1987, parts of the zoo were designated as a National Historic Landmark, the Cincinnati Zoo Historic Structures, due to their significant architecture featured in the Elephant House, the Reptile House, and the Passenger Pigeon Memorial.

Danian

The oceans remained much the same as the Late Cretaceous seas, only that there was less life, few remaining marine reptiles (all of which were turtles and crocodiles), and other lesser known animals.

Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae

Turkeys and pigs are most commonly affected, but cases have been reported in other birds, sheep, fish, and reptiles.

Four continents

Africa, by contrast (illustration, below right) wears the elephant headdress (worn by rulers depicted on Hellenistic Bactrian coins) and is accompanied by a lion, the scorpion of the desert sands and Cleopatra's asps.

Further Down the Spiral

The discs include remixes of "Mr. Self Destruct", "Piggy", "Hurt", "Eraser", "The Downward Spiral", "Heresy", "Reptile", and "Ruiner" as well as two original compositions by Aphex Twin.

Grace Olive Wiley

After parting ways with Brookfield Zoo, Wiley moved to California, where she became a snake trainer and reptile consultant for Hollywood films such as Moon Over Burma, The Jungle Book, and the Tarzan series.

Halo of Flies

Halo of Flies stopped recording in the early 1990s but Hazelmyer kept Amphetamine Reptile Records in business for 20 years by releasing music by Boss Hog, Helmet, The Melvins, The Cows, God Bullies, Helios Creed and Unsane.

Hyphalosaurus

Hyphalosaurus (meaning "submerged lizard") is a genus of freshwater aquatic reptiles which represent a major part of the Jehol Biota.

Jiddat al-Harasis

Reptile species recorded are grey monitor lizard, Uromastyx species, horned viper, carpet viper, hooded malpolon, sand snake, cat snake, skinks, agamids, and geckos.

Jurong FC

Jurong Reptile Park pull out in between the season and there is a financial crisis in the club and facing a gravely financial problems, The New Paper planned and set up a "SAVE JURONG CAMPAIGN", "SAVE JURONG LIFE-LINE", "Walkaton", Golf Tournament" and a "Gala Dinner & Dance" in order to raise a fund of $500,000,00 which was achieved.

Khao Lak-Lam Ru National Park

The park is home to various reptile species including Bengal monitor and Malayan pit viper.

Kumi Lizard

The most recent reports both come from 1898, one describing a large reptile seen near Gisbourne, the other a huge creature akin to a monitor lizard which threatened a bushman in Arowhana before retreating into a Rata tree.

L. tricolor

Leptotyphlops tricolor, the three-colored blind snake, a reptile species

Leonard Clarke Webster

Between 1903 and 1938, he sold plant and reptile specimens to the British Museum and the Australian Museum.

Nanman

The early Chinese exonym Man "southern barbarians" was a graphic pejorative written with Radical 142 虫, the "insect" or "reptile" radical.

Nanosaur

The native animals will attack the Nanosaur when their eggs are threatened; species encountered include Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Dilophosaurus (who spits like in Jurassic Park), and the flying reptile Pteranodon.

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz

His foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon wood, near Sèvres, where he had been taken to live with some friends of his mother.

New York Lizards

The team's name and logo are based on the Italian wall lizard, a small reptile that was imported to Long Island (which has no native lizards) in the 1960s and which populate areas of the team's home town of Hempstead.

Paranthodon

It owes its name to the fact that its jaw was found near the fossils of a Permian pareiasaur named Anthodon.

Platyoposaurus

The fossil remains were found in Belebey, Bashkortostan in Russia, and the name Platyposaurus means "flat faced reptile".

Plesiosaurus

It was so-named ("near lizard") by William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche, to indicate that it was more like a normal reptile than Ichthyosaurus, which had been found in the same rock strata just a few years earlier.

Reptile centre

A Burmese Python at the reptile centre Serpent Safari in Gurnee, Illinois was billed as the heaviest living snake in captivity.

S. slevini

Stenodactylus slevini, the Slevin's short-fingered gecko, a reptile species

Savannah River Ecology Laboratory

2000: SREL is given a Guinness World Records plaque for having the longest, daily-monitored wetland study in the world for its reptile and amphibian research at Rainbow Bay.

Schoenhofen Pyramid Mausoleum

A bronze molding of bundled reeds surrounds the door and the door's themselves feature cast lotus designs with coiled asps around the handles.

Sinosaurosphargis

Sinosaurosphargis is an extinct genus of non-sauropterygian marine reptile known from the lower Middle Triassic (Pelsonian substage, Anisian stage) of Yangmazhai, Luoping County of Yunnan Province, southwestern China.

Slevini

Emoia slevini, Brown & Falanruw, 1972, the Slevin's emoia, Slevin's skink, Marianas emoia, a reptile species in the genus Emoia

Srebarna Nature Reserve

39 mammal, 21 reptile and amphibian and 10 fish species inhabit the reserve, which is most famous for the 179 bird species that nest on its territory, some of which include the Dalmatian Pelican, the Mute Swan, the Greylag Goose, the Marsh Harrier, the Bluethroat, herons and cormorants.

Sri Venkateswara National Park

Another important reptile of this national park is the Golden Gecko.

T. vermicularis

Typhlops vermicularis, the European blind snake or worm snake, a reptile species found in Europe and Lebanon

Tangasaurus

Tangasaurus was described and named by Sidney H. Haughton in 1924 who found it to be a probable diapsid reptile that, because of the long, powerful, flattened tail, had become adapted for an aquatic existence.

Tutankham

Tutankham is a combination of maze and shoot 'em up. Taking on the role of an explorer grave robbing Tutankhamun's tomb, the player is chased by creatures such as asps, vultures, parrots, bats, dragons, and even curses, all that kill the player on contact.

Varenna

The main sights is the Castello di Vezio, which, among the rest, houses a small museum dedicated to the Lariosaurus, a sea reptile from the Middle Triassic period.

Verlyn Klinkenborg

His book Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile concerns the tortoise which the English eighteenth century parson-naturalist Gilbert White inherited from his aunt, as described in his 1789 book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.

Vicentino Prestes de Almeida

Friedrich von Huene named the carnivorous Triassic reptile Prestosuchus chiniquensis in Prestes's honor (from Prestes and Chiniquá, his birthplace).

Vivian de Buffrénil

He is also interested in life history and population dynamics of exploited or threatened reptile taxa, especially among Varanidae and Crocodilia.

Wildlife regulations in Florida

Prohibited animals include “Burmese or Indian python (Python molurus), reticulated python (Python reticulatus), Northern African python (Python sebae), Southern African python (Python natalensis), amethystine or scrub python (Morelia amethistina), green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus), and any other reptile designated as a conditional or prohibited species by the FWC.

Yungas

As this area approaches the tropics, fauna differs from the rest of the coast, so that animals like the boas, larger reptiles and the famous White-winged Guan (a bird species unique to this Peruvian ecoregion) occur here.


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