Also amphibians and reptiles, with no innings for frogs, toads, adders and great-crested newts.
Yet the story deepens as Dorst imbues all these reptiles with metaphorical weight.
The black reptiles with yellow and cream markings only bite humans if they feel extremely threatened.
The significance of thermoregulation can be seen by comparing today's reptiles with mammals.
Then come sponges, clams, lungfish, ginkgo trees, reptiles with a lizardlike appearance called tuataras and more.
Zoos "REPTILE REALITIES," a presentation examining the facts and fantasies concerning reptiles, with Frank Indiviglio, animal care specialist.
The ichthyosaurs are reptiles with fishlike bodies; they were live-bearers because their body form prevented beaching to lay eggs.
With the exception of a few terrestrial forms, such as the box turtles (Terrapene) of North and Central America, emydid turtles are aquatic reptiles with streamlined shells.
Aquatic reptiles, with some exceptions, use the same means of propulsion as do fish that is, lateral undulations of the rear half of the body and tail.
After the asteroid impact, the ammonites went extinct, along with the mosasaurs (giant marine lizards with ferocious jaws), the plesiosaurs (marine reptiles with four flippers), and, of course, the dinosaurs.
Take a two-and-a-half-mile walk along the trails with the naturalist and birder John Turner, look for reptiles with "Snakeman" Chris Chapin and meet the animals of the Quogue Wildlife Refuge.
