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The Hazards of Hatching

Sunday, April 15th, 2012


The protection which the shelled egg gives to the developing embryo is its most obvious contribution to the survival of the species – but scarcely less important is the fact that when it hatches, it lets out into the world a tiny a tiny miniature of an adult, equipped from the beginning to make its own way in its environment. But to reach this perfected state the embryo needs a long period of development in the egg. Turtles like the snappers at left need two to three months; the primitive but specialized New Zealand tuatara needs more than a year. During these long incubations the eggs must be protected from predators and other dangers.

 

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Reptiles

Saturday, December 6th, 2008


A proper reptile to begin with is a vertebrate animal.  It has scales , breathes air , not water, characteristically lays shelled eggs an depends on outside sources for its heat and warmth.   There are in the world and on the globe only five main animals that fit into this group and grouping.   They are in sequence – turtles , lizards , the snakes  the crocodillians and the most strange and odd including a strange little creature called the tuatara , which somehow looks remarkably like a lizard but is not.  Indeed tuatara , a native creature of New Zealand is in grave danger of becoming extinct.

In this latest range of geologic history. there are approximately 6,000 species of reptiles scattered around the earth.  Though reptiles are most diverse as well as numerous in warmer climes and regions . they range as far northward as well turning up as far north as Sweden, Siberia as well as other colder climates that you would think would not harbor and sustain these creatures.  Reptiles as well inhabit desert areas of the planet.

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