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Definitions of reptiles in various dictionaries:
noun - any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
noun - any of a class of cold-blooded, air-breathing vertebrates
REPTILES - Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their ex...
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These animals are divided into 4 groups: lizards & snakes; turtles; crocodilians; & the tuatara |
Monotreme means 3 internal canals lead to 1 common opening, same as in this scaly class of land animals |
Seen here, the rare tuatara of New Zealand is the only living member of an entire order of this animal class |
The Mesozoic era is known as the Age of these, such as snakes & iguanas today |
About 180 million years ago, mammals evolved from this class, named from Latin for "creeping" |
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Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology. * Because some reptiles are more closely related to birds than they are to other reptiles (e.g., crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards), the traditional groups of "reptiles" listed above do not together constitute a monophyletic grouping or clade (consisting of all descendants of a common ancestor). For this reason, many modern scientists prefer to consider the birds part of Reptilia as well, thereby making Reptilia a monophyletic class, including all living Diapsids.The earliest known proto-reptiles originated around 312 million years ago during the Carboniferous period, having evolved from advanced reptiliomorph tetrapods that became increasingly adapted to life on dry |