- Fact 3 - A Reptile creeps or crawls
on the ground
- Fact 4 - There are more than 8,000
species in the
world
- Fact 5 - Reptiles live on every
continent except Antarctica where it is too cold
- Fact 6 - The skin of a reptile is
usually cool and dry - not slimy!
- Fact 7 - Reptiles are the oldest
type of animal on the planet
- Fact 8 - brain of a reptile is
not more than 1% of its body mass
- Fact 9 - The worlds fastest
reptile, measured on land at 21.7mph, is the spiny-tailed iguana
of Costa Rica
- Fact 10 - The smallest reptile in
the world is the Jaragua Sphaero, or Dwarf Gecko, a lizard
measuring 16 millimeters
- Fact 11 - The World's Largest
Reptile is Saltwater Crocodile of Australia which can grow to
lengths of 7 metres
- Fact 12 - The world is inhabited by
at least 250 species of turtles, 25 species of crocodilians,
5,500 species of snakes and 3,000 species of lizards
- Fact 13 - Reptiles are called
cold-blooded because they can't regulate their own body
temperature. Their body temperature is dependent on the external
temperature
- Fact 14 - Reptiles have existed for
more than 300 million years
- Fact 15 - Most reptiles are
carnivorous and eat insects, other reptiles and small animals
- Fact 16 - A reptile will eat 30 -
50 times less food than do birds and mammals (warm-blooded
animals) of a similar size
- Fact 17 - The Mesozoic Era, which
began 245 million years ago, is known as the Age of Reptiles, a
chapter in Earth's history when the reptile dominated
terrestrial habitats
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