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Epithets and Terms of Address: Reptile
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People who are considered to be repulsive have regularly been described as reptiles since at least the eighteenth century. Fielding refers in Tom Jones to a ‘reptile of a critic’, for instance. ‘Avoid my sight, thou reptile,’ is...
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Reptilia Summary
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Most reptiles can be classified into three large groups: the turtles (order Chelonia), the snakes and lizards (order Squamata), and the alligators and crocodiles (order Crocodilia). Most reptiles share a number of general morphological features. In...
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Reptile Information
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Reptiles are air-breathing, cold-blooded vertebrates that have scaly bodies as opposed to hair or feathers; they represent an intermediate position in evolutionary development between amphibians and warm-blooded vertebrates, the birds and mammals. They...


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'Monster' Arctic reptile remains found
12/4/2007: 266 words, approx. 1 pages
Remains of a bus-sized prehistoric "monster" reptile found on a remote Arctic island may be a new species never before recorded by science, researchers said Tuesday.Initial excavation of a site on the Svalbard islands in August yielded the remains, teeth, skull fragments and vertebrae of...
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21 crocodile-like reptiles die in India
12/12/2007: 262 words, approx. 1 pages
At least 21 endangered crocodile-like reptiles have died mysteriously in a river sanctuary in central India, raising fears that one of India's last unpolluted waterways has become toxic.Wildlife officials discovered the bodies of one male and 20 female gharials — massive reptiles that look like...
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Dozens of rare reptiles die in India
1/22/2008: 361 words, approx. 1 pages
Conservationists and scientists scrambled Tuesday to determine what has killed at least 50 critically endangered crocodile-like reptiles in recent weeks in a river sanctuary in central India.Everything from parasites to pollution has been blamed for the deaths of the gharials — massive reptiles that look...
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Alligator captured near LA lake
5/25/2007: 491 words, approx. 2 pages
A 6 1/2-foot alligator believed to be the elusive "Reggie" who lurked in a park lake for two years was captured Thursday in a wrestling match with a reptile expert and rangers.Several would-be gator wranglers have failed to remove the wily Reggie since the reptile...
 


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