Sentence examples for reptiles instead from inspiring English sources

Imagine that we had evolved from reptiles instead of mammals.

Fatal Eggs can be seen as a parable about the nature of Soviet communism, though the frame of the tale is a mad scientist of genius and a ray - not a death ray, but one that vitalises - engendering swarms of reptiles, instead of beneficent beasts, because of some mix-up in the laboratory.

Show them that part first, and then they can understand, for example, why we classify birds within the reptiles (instead of as a separate "Class"), and why we don't classify even-toed and odd-toed hoofed mammals together (as "Ungulata"), even though they have hooves.

Leterrier changed the Abomination's design from the comics because he felt the audience would question why he resembled a fish or a reptile, instead of "an über-human" like the Hulk.

Don't use substrate; use paper towel or reptile carpet instead to avoid impaction.

Instead, reptiles excrete toxic nitrogenous wastes as solid uric acid through their cloaca.

Their niches are filled instead by reptiles, marsupials and birds.

Instead of gargoyles, reptiles slither down the sides of his cathedral; instead of columns, plant stems shoot upwards; edges are not straight but twist like leaves; spires expand outwards like flowering buds.

Instead, the reptile A. Carolinensis and the mammal H. Sapiens share part of the Urea Cycle.

Instead of the vampire he finds Onaga's dragon egg instead, which transforms Reptile into Onaga's avatar, leading to the events of Deception and ending with his defeat at the game's conclusion.

Instead, other groups of reptiles have invaded marine habitats with varying degrees of success many times since the Permian (Carroll 1982), as they still do today.