reptile
Example Sentences
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It was one of the last major undeveloped wetlands in Southern California and a breeding and feeding site for 370 bird species, along with fish, reptiles, rabbits, foxes, coyotes and other animals.
From Los Angeles Times
It may have resembled a lizard, but it lived before reptiles and mammals branched into separate evolutionary paths, so it was not technically a reptile.
From Science Daily
The single set of temporal fascia—indentations behind the eye sockets that are doubled on a reptile—is one means of scientific definition.
Many expenses are non-negotiable - heating for animals from hot countries, lighting and humidity for reptiles, enclosure maintenance, food quality and staffing numbers.
From BBC
Semi-natural grassland also continues to be lost, despite being seen as a priority habitat and vital for a whole range of plants, fungi, insects, ground-nesting birds, small mammals and reptiles.
From BBC
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