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The Reptile is a 1966 film about a villiage whose locals start dying from mysterious snake bites. Directed by John Gilling. Written by Anthony Hinds....

Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging...

traditional nature documentary. The series follows the evolution of early reptiles and mammals throughout the times leading up to the reign of the dinosaurs...

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and...

A Series of Unfortunate Events Book the Second: The Reptile Room (1999) by Lemony Snicket (in the dedication) For Beatrice--My love for you shall live...

land before the rise of the dinosaurs were the synapsids, the mammal-like reptiles... Most paleontologists have believed that the locomotion and physiology...

Turtles are reptiles of the order Chelonia or Testudines, characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs that acts as...

to any of the following: Dinosauria - a highly diverse group of diapsid reptiles that appeared during the Triassic period, 231.4 million years ago, and...

group of giant reptiles for over fifty million years. But these ancient creatures have had their day. Narrator: [about the mammal-like reptiles] One day in...

Greek σαύρος (sauros) 'lizard') comprise a group of extinct, large marine reptiles from the Late Cretaceous. Their first fossil remains were discovered in...

σαῦρος (sauros), 'lizard') are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia. Plesiosaurs first appeared in the Late...

plann'd, That Time may mock his toil?—and must he still For weeds and reptiles ply his plastic skill? Nicholas Michell, Ruins of Many Lands, 2nd ed. (1850)...

continents. There was no hint that birds were their direct descendents. Being reptiles, dinosaurs were cold-blooded and rather sluggish except perhaps for the...

repulsiveness for which she stands..." -The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, "Reptiles in the Rose Garden" "Get off my throne, you ugly upstick!" -The Adventures...

Robert Forbes in Gaelic names of beasts (Mammalia), birds, fishes, insects, reptiles, etc. in two parts (1905). Cha bhòrd bòrd gun aran ach 's bòrd aran leis...

distinct types of teeth in its jaws – which is comparatively rare among reptiles. The diet of Dimorphodon has been questioned among researchers, with earlier...

Technical, p. 20 Dinosaurs are not lizards, and vice versa. Lizards are scaley reptiles of an ancient bloodline. The oldest lizards antedate the earliest dinosaurs...

with reptiles: pride, obstinacy, and self-love. And when his footstool is rolled away from under him, he sinks, together with all the reptiles, into...

to tell people the basic story, but "for God’s sake don’t mention the reptiles." The Biggest Secret (1999) ch. 1 I wish I didn't have to introduce the...

own support and preservation. Richard Owen, A History of British Fossil Reptiles, vol. 1 (1849), p. 334. Megalosaurus had large blade-like teeth set in...