reptiles
A class of scaly vertebrates that usually reproduce by laying eggs. Lizards, snakes, turtles, and alligators are reptiles. Reptiles are cold-blooded animals.
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For others, those ninjutsu-proficient reptiles were nefarious liberal propaganda.
A Political History of the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ | Asawin Suebsaeng | August 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd some reptiles add a fourth function to the overworked cloacal repository–that of respiration as well.
What the Man With No Ass Crack Can Teach Darwinists and Creationists | Kent Sepkowitz | January 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd second, the allegers proved themselves over time to be as unappealing a litter of reptiles and crones as could be imagined.
Eliza Shapiro on the invasive reptiles who are so far evading capture.
The Everglades, overrun with huge reptiles, is about to host its first-ever open season on snakes.
On such a night all India seems to be dead as a land but tremendously alive as a storehouse of insects, animals, and reptiles.
The Red Year | Louis TracyThe island is especially favoured; it contains no poisonous or hurtful insects or reptiles.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferIt has not been taken notice of in the modern works on reptiles.
Now, says the skeptic, is it not possible that reptiles and birds lived upon the earth previous to the creation of beasts?
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardIn fishes and reptiles a full sweep of vision is so slowly gained that some more active sentinel sense is requisite to safety.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles Morris
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