When, for example, the reptiles of the Mesozoic Age were the lords of creation, there was apparently no place for the larger Mammalia which appear at the close of the reptile dynasty.
On the land, batrachian reptiles now abound, some of them very high in the sub-class to which they belong.
The first known land reptiles appear in the Carboniferous period, and they have normally five toes; these appear in the earliest known species in the lowest beds of the Carboniferous.
The Mesozoic or Secondary age, or age of Reptiles, when reptiles prevailed in great numbers and of vast size.
Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that we passed thousands of these dangerous reptiles while descending the Suwanee.
To observe the movements of these reptiles I ran the canoe within two rods of the left shore, and by rapid paddling was enabled to arrive opposite a creature as he entered the water.
Wild animals roam its great forests, and vile reptiles infest the dense swamps.
The owls hooted wildly, with a chorus of cries from animals and reptiles not recognizable by me, excepting the snarling voices of the coons fighting in the forest.
In this way we caught several loggerheads, reptiles a meter wide and weighing 200 kilos.
But this hard substance could have been a bony carapace, like those that covered some prehistoric animals, and I might have left it at that and classified this monster among such amphibious reptiles as turtles or alligators.
Diving easily, these reptiles can remain a good while underwater by closing the fleshy valves located at the external openings of their nasal passages.
A host of batrachians and reptiles bestir themselves after a long winter sleep and vociferously proclaim their presence.
The Cenozoic era is the age of mammals, so called because during that time brute mammals succeeded reptiles as the rulers of the earth.
Cope; of batrachians and probably reptiles in rocks of similar age in Nova Scotia, by J.
Hear me my braves, and believe me, though I will speak strange words: these reptiles have thought that because we have not killed them as toads and scorpions, it was because we were afraid of their poison.
It was a warm day; and the movements of all these reptiles are wonderfully quickened by a genial atmosphere.
A group of Reptilesso named by Owen in allusion to the Mammalian character of their teeth.
As regards the Vertebrate animals of the period, no extinct forms of Fishes, Amphibians, or Reptiles are known to occur, but we meet with both extinct Birds and extinct Mammals.
All the groups of Jurassic Reptiles which we have hitherto been considering are wholly unrepresented at the present day, and do not even pass upwards into the Tertiary period.
Another extraordinary group of Jurassic Reptiles is that of the "Winged Lizards" or Pterosauria.
On the Affinities between the Deinosaurian Reptiles and Birds"--'Quart.
Though there can be no doubt whatever as to the occurrence of genuine Reptiles in deposits of unquestionable Permian age, there is still uncertainty as to the precise number of types which may have existed at this period.
Lastly, we find in the Triassic rocks the remains of Reptiles belonging to the great Mesozoic order of the Deinosauria.
Another extraordinary and interesting group of the Mesozoic Reptiles is constituted by the Deinosauria, comprising a series of mostly gigantic forms, which range from the Trias to the Chalk.
The senses of reptiles are dull, and their movements are either slow or laborious.
Some have gills, and others lungs, but the latter have only a portion of the blood passing through them; and thus the blood of reptiles is cold, as it is respiration which gives the blood heat.
THIS is a British species, and is one of the very few reptiles found in Ireland.
The greater part of these reptiles undergo a transition from a fish-like tadpole furnished with gills to a four-legged animal with lungs.
He is the great destroyer of the snakes and other reptiles which swarm in many parts of Southern Africa, and which, but for him, would increase in numbers so as to become a positive nuisance.
I went very cautiously, with my eyes scanning the spot eagerly, for at very little distance the reptiles would be invisible from the way in which their scales assimilated with the earth.
Only one of the reptiles by the stream," said my father, quietly.
At that moment Kolbein gave their God a stroke, so that he quite burst asunder; and there ran out of him mice as big almost as cats, and reptiles and adders.
You see now that the protecting powers, who used and got good of all that, were the mice and adders, the reptiles and lizards; and surely they do ill who trust to such, and will not abandon this folly.
The night wind rustled the leaves; the lizards had retired early, reptiles of exemplary habits.
SMITH Preparation of a handbook of reptiles and amphibians by the junior author has led to a survey of the collections of these animals at Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia.
The whispering rushes and feathery palms at the water's edge hid evil-smelling mud, festering with fever, the home of reptiles and crocodiles.
Or had he ordered his poison reptiles to be let loose among the soldiers?
It was the home of the most terrible reptiles and animals, and the souls of wicked people waited there for Judgment Day.
Next, he turned to the extinct reptiles of the Mesozoic age.
An annotated check list of the amphibians and reptiles of Colorado.
A survey of the amphibians and reptiles of Harrison County, Mississippi.
Type specimens of amphibians and reptiles in the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas.
Hibernation of amphibians and reptilesin Richmond County, Georgia.
The amphibians and reptiles of Mammoth Cave National Park Proposed.
Notes on the amphibians andreptiles of Greene County, Ohio.
Notes on amphibians and reptiles from the central United States.
The amphibians and reptilesof Franklin County, Kansas.
He glanced up, expecting to see one of the great flying reptiles of a bygone age, his rifle ready in his hand.
Figures of reptiles and beasts were painted without regard to any uniform scheme here and there upon the walls.
When the Wieroos first developed wings upon which they could fly, they found this island devoid of any life other than a fewreptiles that live either upon land or in the water and these only close to the coast.
Southward along the coast they made their way following the beach, where the walking was best, but always keeping close enough to trees to insure sanctuary from the beasts and reptiles that so often menaced them.
Afterwards Lacépède[33] took charge of the reptiles and fishes.
On his return he sent North American insects to his friends Fabricius and Olivier, fishes to Lacépède, birds to Daudin, reptiles to Latreille.
This sagacious, though crude suggestion of the origin of birds and mammals from the reptiles is now, after the lapse of nearly a century, being confirmed by modern morphologists and palæontologists.
And as there is little reason for supposing that reptiles behaved in the past any differently from what they do in the present, these great Dinosaurs may, after all, not have been gifted with such ravenous appetites as one might fancy.
Sometimes, like the tracks of salamanders and reptiles in the carboniferous rocks of Pennsylvania and Kansas, these are all we have to tell of the existence of air-breathing animals.
The jaws of all reptiles are made up of a number of pieces, but these are usually so spliced together that each half of the jaw is one inflexible, or nearly inflexible, mass of bone.
The first Dinosaur to be formally recognized as representing quite a new order of reptiles was the carnivorous Megalosaur, found near Oxford, England, in 1824.
There is, however, this difference observable in the chyle, that in reptiles and insects it is transparent like lymph.
In fact, if any of the transitional forms between species can be reduced to a single pair--as the forms that connect the reptiles with the mammals--our fate would seem to be in the keeping of these forms.
Is it not quite certain that evolution in the life of the globe has run its course, and that it will not again bring forthreptiles or mammals of the terrible proportions of those of past geologic ages?
I say, how horrible if the mule were to step on one of the nasty reptiles now.
The next minute he was striding along over the sand in and out amongst the scattered blocks of stone, and followed by his friends, cautiously on the alert for anyreptiles that might be coiled up asleep.
We shall have to bring a light to find the end of the rope and see that there are none of the reptiles hanging on to it.
In brief, this animal was close to the point where reptiles and birds parted company in evolution, and although it was a primitive bird, it is in a true sense a "missing link" between reptiles and the group of modern birds.
Flying reptiles also evolved, to set an example for the bats of the mammalian class, for both kinds of flying organisms converted their anterior limbs into wings, although in different ways.
The reptiles then appeared and gained ascendancy over the amphibia, to become in the Mesozoic age the highest and most varied of the existing vertebrates.
Reptiles also are grouped, like the mammals and birds, as variations about a central theme.
An annotated check list of the reptiles and amphibians of Texas.
Introduction to the study of the reptiles of Indiana.
Records of some reptilesand batrachians from the southeastern United States.
A field guide to reptiles and amphibians of eastern North America.
Further records of the ecology and distribution of amphibians and reptiles in the middle west.
Notes on the batrachians and reptiles of Vigo County, Indiana.
A list ofreptiles and amphibians collected by Louis Garni in the vicinity of Boerne, Texas.
The amphibians and reptiles of the Hawaiian Islands.
Herpetological records from the vicinity of San Marcos, Texas, with distributional data on the amphibians and reptiles of the Edwards Plateau region and central Texas.
The amphibians and reptiles of Dickinson County, Iowa.
A check list of the amphibians and reptiles of Ellis County, Kansas.
Recent additions to the records of the distribution of the reptiles in Wisconsin.
The occurrence of amphibians and reptiles in saltwater areas, and a bibliography.
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