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 | | Beauty comes in all sizes and shapes :) | by spisharam on Flickr |
| Reptiles include snakes, lizards, turtles, tortoises, crocodiles and alligators.
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 | | Crokodile 07 | by DeusXFlorida on Flickr |
| They are cold blooded animals with vertabrate (a backbone).
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 | | Lizard Up Close | by SivamDesign on Flickr |
| There bodies are covered with scales.
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 | | DSC_0106 | by Schristia on Flickr |
| They have sharp claws.
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 | | Hatching out! An African Spur-Thigh Tortoise (Geochelone Sulcata) | by EraPhernalia Vintage . . . (playin' hook-y ;o) on Flickr |
| Most reptiles lay leathery-shelled eggs on the land.
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 | | Happy Honu | by jurvetson on Flickr |
| They can be found everywhere in the world except Antarctica.
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 | | Oustalet's Chameleon (Furcifer oustaleti), Ankarafantsika National Park, Madagascar | by Frank.Vassen on Flickr |
| Some kinds of chameleons can change colors to help them hide in their habitats.
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 | | Dennis Sheridan's Live Reptiles, a hands-on Holding Hands with Nature educational activity 29 Dec. 2008 | by mikebaird on Flickr |
| People who study reptiles are called herpetologists.
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 | | Figure 8 | by Furryscaly on Flickr |
| Of the 3000 species of snakes, only a few hundred of them are venomous.
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