give me all the advice you know on reptiles?
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Read up on any particular reptiles you have.  Keep all your reptiles hydrated.  Ultraviolet radiation ie: sunlight, ultraviolet lamps is key to keeping your reptiles healthy.  They require this to help them digest their food.  Herbavores require a varied diet, not just lettuce!!!!
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Come to Australia, u might accindelty get killed! lol no, Live in a town or CIty, not a snake in sight. Live on a farm thats where the snakes are
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The VERY BEST online guide to trilobites is here:\nhttp://www.trilobites.info/index.html\nHe even has a long FAQ, as well as lots of photos and diagrams. \n\nThe Australian Museum has a good write-up describing them:\nhttp://www.austmus.gov.au/palaeontology/research/trilobites02.htm\n\nHere is a good set of photos of specimens:\nhttp://www.yale.edu/ypmip/\n\nHere is another set of 46 photos of specimens:\nhttp://www.paleoportal.org/fossil_gallery/search.php
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These were Mesozoic marine reptiles. They lived during the Triassic, Jurassic, and into the middle and Late Cretaceous.\n\nHere is an authoritative site that describes the taxonomy, gives physical characteristics, environmental adaptations, and shows some photos. \n http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/210Eureptilia/300.html
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I enjoy reptile shows on animal planet.Steve Irwin taught me,you don't muck around with the critters.Respect them and enjoy.
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snake_hunter26@yahoo.com\n\ntalk to you soon!!
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I studied zoology at Bristol, it's really good.  You get half price entry to the zoo!!  Seriously, the course is quite broad and very similar to biology, except you don't have to study plants.  There's excellent fieldwork as well and you learn lots about evolution, ecology, conservation, genetics.  Some uni's let you choose the modules you want to do so you can leave out the boring ones!\nGood luck!
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How big was the lizard?  Where there any other distinguishing features?\n\nIf it was quite big, like a big, black iguana, I'd say it might be a Chuckwalla:\n\nhttp://www.reptilesofaz.com/Lizards-Subpages/h-s-ater.html\n\nSmaller and spiky, it might be a Clark's Spiny Lizard\n\nhttp://www.reptilesofaz.com/Lizards-Subpages/h-s-clarkii.html\n\nSlender and smooth, it might be something like a Gilbert's skink\n\nhttp://www.reptilesofaz.com/Lizards-Subpages/h-e-gilberti.html\n\nIf those don't help, check out the other species on this page:\n\nhttp://www.reptilesofaz.com/herp-lizards.html
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Greetings,\n\nCheck out this link: http://www.allturtles.com/turtle_species/slider.php\n\nBasically these turtles live all over the world in fresh water ecosytems.  They are listed as one of the top invader species.  Pick a fresh water ecosystem and go from there.\n\nFish, crayfish, birds, etc.\n\n-matt
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If you are capable enough, actually get a reptile, you will attract your science class enormously. Let them touch it and feed it. Make your class jot down reptile's physical features, what they are used for and make them have a guess what the reptile food chain is. You may want to add some additional information on anphibians, because lots of people don't know the difference between the two alike species.
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This is the only i could find on the web.\n\nSnakelet, neonate (a newly-born snake), hatchling (a newly-hatched snake).\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/animals/Animalbabies.shtml
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The tail of lizards is an important element for locomotion and balance. These animals move by mean of undulations of their entire body axis (vertebral column), and the motions of the tail counteract those of the trunk.\nIn addition, most lizards are capable of autotomy, that is, they can shed their tail at need, usually when threatened by a predator or in other highly stressful conditions, and then grow a new tail. \nThis is achieved by means of special intravertebral fracture planes, that is, each of the autotomic vertebrae has a weak transversal plane through which it can break into two pieces. In addition, the tail muscles of the autotomic region are arranged in small "brick-like" packages that can become separated without much tissue damage; the blood vessels in the area also have the ability of closing and clotting rapidly so as to avoid excess blood loss.\nUnder stressful conditions, the animal will experience reflex contraction of those specialized muscles and a fragment of the tail will become separated from the rest of the body. This fragment continues to thrash and move for some minutes after autotomy, thus attracting the would-be predator while the lizard escapes to safety.\nAfterwards, a new tail will grow (this can take several months, according to the metabolic rate and general conditions of the individual); but this new tail does not have real vertebrae, only a rod-like support tissue. It usually has a blunt tip and different color/texture from the original tail. \nThere are _no_ autotomic vertebrae inside this new stump; therefore, the next autotomy will have to occur in vertebrae that are closer to the trunk. The number of these special vertebrae is limited, so the amount of autotomies is also limited. \nAutotomy is obviously advantageous as a means of escape. However, tail loss also implies a disadvantage, basically because: 1) as other users have answered, many lizards store fat supplies in the tail (although normally the basal part of the tail is not autotomic); 2)"growing back" a new tail requires more energetic resources that might have been used for other purposes; 3)until the new tail grows, locomotion may be somewhat impaired.\nAnd I'm leaving out other (e.g. social communication) uses of the tail.\nInterestingly, the tail won't grow back if the severance does not occur at the special fracture planes.
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why do you have lizards at home
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Hylonomus lyelli and Paleothyris are the oldest-known true egg-laying reptiles. Their fossils have been found in 310,000,000-year-old coal deposits in Joggins, Nova Scotia. They were about 8 inches long in adulthood and looked like modern lizards. \n\nI couldn't pick them out of a lizard lineup, personally.
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python  \n\n\nAny of 28 species (family Pythonidae, sometimes a subfamily of Boidae) of sluggish, docile, nonvenomous snakes found in tropical and temperate regions.\n\nExcept for one Central American species (Loxocemus bicolor), pythons are found from western Africa to China, Australia, and the Pacific islands. Pythons feed on birds and mammals, killing them by constriction. Most are found near water; some are arboreal. Unlike boas, pythons lay eggs (15–100, depending on body size). The Asian reticulated python (Python reticulatus) may be the world's longest snake (the anaconda is heavier); specimens over 30 ft (9 m) long have been recorded. \n\nboa  \n\n\nAny of about 60 species of stout-bodied snakes (subfamily Boinae, family Boidae) found in both the Old and New Worlds, mostly in warm regions.\n\nSpecies vary in length from about 8 in. (20 cm) to more than 25 ft (7.5 m). Most are terrestrial or semiaquatic; some live in trees. Most species have blotches and diamonds on their brown, green, or yellowish body. Boas bite their prey, then kill by wrapping their body around the prey and crushing it. Several species have heat-sensitive lip pits for detecting warm-blooded prey, and most bear live young. Contrary to folklore, boas are not dangerous to humans.
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Yahoo! Groups has a number of herpetology discussion groups, 40 to be exact.\n\nYou can find them here:\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=herpetology&submit=Search
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If you mean where can you find info about them I would think any animal encyclopedia would be helpful.  There are horned toads (really lizards), other lizards, various snakes, desert rodents, scorpions and spiders, mountain lions, road runners, eagles and hawks and of course other birds.