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Acrodont
Acrodont is a formation of the teeth whereby the teeth are consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge of the jaw without sockets.
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Active camouflage
Active camouflage or adaptive camouflage is camouflage that adapts, often rapidly, to the surroundings of an object such as an animal or military vehicle.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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Agama (lizard)
Agama (.
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Agamidae
Agamidae is a family of over 300 species of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe.
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Agonistic behaviour
Agonistic behaviour is any social behaviour related to fighting.
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Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.
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Alexandre Brongniart
Alexandre Brongniart (5 February 17707 October 1847) was a French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris.
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Algae
Algae (singular alga) is an informal term for a large, diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not necessarily closely related, and is thus polyphyletic.
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Alligator lizard
An alligator lizard is any one of various kinds of lizards that have some shared characteristics.
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Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD), also referred to simply as Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time.
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Ambush predator
Ambush predators or sit-and-wait predators are carnivorous animals or other organisms, such as some nematophagous fungi and carnivorous plants, that capture or trap prey by stealth or by strategy (typically not conscious strategy), rather than by speed or by strength.
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American legless lizard
The family Anniellidae, known as American legless lizards, contains six species in a single genus Anniella: A. pulchra, the California legless lizard, the rare, A. geronimensis, Baja California legless lizard, and four more discovered in 2013.
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Amphisbaenia
Amphisbaenia (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of usually legless squamates, comprising over 180 extant species.
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Anelytropsis
Anelytropsis papillosus, or Mexican blind lizard, is a species of legless lizard in the family Dibamidae, and the only species in the genus Anelytropsis.
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Anguidae
Anguidae refers to a large and diverse family of lizards native to the Northern Hemisphere.
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Anguimorpha
Anguimorphs of the infraorder Anguimorpha include the anguids (alligator lizards, glass lizards, galliwasps and legless lizards).
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Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Anolis ecomorphs
The ecomorph concept is a term first coined by Ernest Edward Williams in 1972 which he defined as a “species with the same structural habitat/niche, similar in morphology and behavior, but not necessarily close phyletically.” Williams first applied this definition to the Greater Antillean anoles (especifically in Puerto Rico) upon observing their evolutionary radiation, although it has since been used widely elsewhere.
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Ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.
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Anti-predator adaptation
Anti-predator adaptations are mechanisms developed through evolution that assist prey organisms in their constant struggle against predators.
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Apparent death
Apparent death, colloquially known as playing dead, feigning death, or playing possum, is a behavior in which animals take on the appearance of being dead.
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Archelosauria
Archelosauria is a clade proposed in 2014Crawford, Nicholas G., et al.
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Archosaur
Archosaurs are a group of diapsid amniotes whose living representatives consist of birds and crocodilians.
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Archosauromorpha
Archosauromorpha (Greek for "ruling lizard forms") is a clade (or infraclass) of diapsid reptiles that first appeared during the middle Permian and became more common during the Triassic.
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Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology
Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology (also known as Dreamtime or Dreaming stories, songlines, or Aboriginal oral literature) are the stories traditionally performed by Aboriginal peoples within each of the language groups across Australia.
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Autohaemorrhaging
Autohaemorrhaging or reflex bleeding is the action of animals deliberately ejecting haemolymph or blood from their bodies.
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Autotomy
Autotomy (from the Greek auto- "self-" and tome "severing", αὐτονομία) or self-amputation is the behaviour whereby an animal sheds or discards one or more of its own appendages, usually as a self-defense mechanism to elude a predator's grasp or to distract the predator and thereby allow escape.
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Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
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Battle of Sinhagad
The Battle of Sinhagad took place during the night on 4 February, 1670 on the fort of Sinhagad near the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India.
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Bavarisaurus
Bavarisaurus ('Bavarian lizard') is an extinct dubious genus of possibly invalid basal lizard found in the Solnhofen limestone near Bavaria, Germany.
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Beetle
Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota.
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Bengal monitor
The Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis) or common Indian monitor, is a monitor lizard found widely distributed over the Indian Subcontinent, as well as parts of Southeast Asia and West Asia.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Blood pressure
Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels.
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Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television (typically referred to on-air as simply Bloomberg) is an American-based international cable and satellite business news television channel, owned by Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide.
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Blue-tongued skink
Blue-tongued skinks comprise the Australasian genus Tiliqua, which contains some of the largest members of the skink family (Scincidae).
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Bronze anole
The bronze anole (Anolis aeneus) is a species of anole lizard found in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles and South America.
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Brookesia micra
Brookesia micra is a species of chameleons from the island of Nosy Hara in Antsiranana, Madagascar.
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Camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimesis).
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Canidae
The biological family Canidae (from Latin, canis, “dog”) is a lineage of carnivorans that includes domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes, jackals, dingoes, and many other extant and extinct dog-like mammals.
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Carnian
The Carnian (less commonly, Karnian) is the lowermost stage of the Upper Triassic series (or earliest age of the Late Triassic epoch).
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Carphodactylidae
The Carphodactylidae are a family of geckos consisting of 30 described species.
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Carrier's constraint
Carrier's constraint is the observation that air-breathing vertebrates which have two lungs and flex their bodies sideways during locomotion find it very difficult to move and breathe at the same time, because the sideways flexing expands one lung and compresses the other, shunting stale air from lung to lung instead of expelling it completely to make room for fresh air.
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Chameleon
Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015.
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Chitin
Chitin (C8H13O5N)n, a long-chain polymer of ''N''-acetylglucosamine, is a derivative of glucose.
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Chlamydosaurus
The frilled-necked lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii), also known as the frilled lizard, frilled dragon or frilled agama, is a species of lizard which is found mainly in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.
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Chordate
A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.
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Choristodera
Choristodera is an extinct order of semiaquatic diapsid reptiles that ranged from the Middle Jurassic, or possibly Late Triassic, to at least the early Miocene.
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Clade
A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".
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Cladistics (journal)
Cladistics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research in cladistics.
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Cloaca
In animal anatomy, a cloaca (plural cloacae or) is the posterior orifice that serves as the only opening for the digestive, reproductive, and urinary tracts (if present) of many vertebrate animals, opening at the vent.
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Coagulation
Coagulation (also known as clotting) is the process by which blood changes from a liquid to a gel, forming a blood clot.
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Common basilisk
The common basilisk (Basiliscus basiliscus) is a species of lizard in the family Corytophanidae.
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Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.
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Cordylidae
Cordylidae is a family of small to medium-sized lizards that occur in southern and eastern Africa.
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Corytophanidae
Corytophanidae is a family of iguanian lizards, also called casquehead lizards or helmeted lizards, endemic to the New World.
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Cricket (insect)
Crickets (also known as "true crickets"), of the family Gryllidae, are insects related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers.
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Crocodilia
Crocodilia (or Crocodylia) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic archosaurian reptiles, known as crocodilians.
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Crotaphytinae
The Crotaphytinae, or collared lizards, are a subfamily of desert-dwelling reptiles native to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
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Crotaphytus
Crotaphytus is a genus of lizards commonly known as collared lizards.
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Curly-tailed lizards
The curly-tailed lizards belong to the family Leiocephalidae. One of the defining features of these lizards is that, when approached, their tail curls over.
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Dactyloidae
Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay.
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Dactyly
In biology, dactyly is the arrangement of digits (fingers and toes) on the hands, feet, or sometimes wings of a tetrapod animal.
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Deimatic behaviour
Deimatic behaviour, threat display, or startle display in animals means any pattern of behaviour, such as suddenly displaying conspicuous eyespots, to scare off or momentarily distract a predator, thus giving the prey animal an opportunity to escape.
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Dewlap
A dewlap is a longitudinal flap of skin that hangs beneath the lower jaw or neck of many vertebrates.
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Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.
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Diapsid
Diapsids ("two arches") are a group of amniote tetrapods that developed two holes (temporal fenestra) in each side of their skulls about 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period.
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Dibamidae
Dibamidae is a family of legless lizards found in tropical forests.
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Diplodactylidae
The Diplodactylidae are a family in the suborder Gekkota (geckos), with about 137 species in 25 genera.
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Disruptive coloration
Disruptive coloration (also known as disruptive camouflage or disruptive patterning) is a form of camouflage that works by breaking up the outlines of an animal, soldier or military vehicle with a strongly contrasting pattern.
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Diurnality
Diurnality is a form of plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day, with a period of sleeping, or other inactivity, at night.
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Draco (genus)
Draco is a genus of agamid lizards that are also known as flying lizards, flying dragons or gliding lizards.
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Earless lizard
Earless lizards are two genera of small lizards native to the semi-arid and grassland habitats of the southwestern United States and Mexico.
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Earless monitor lizard
The earless monitor lizard (Lanthanotus borneensis) is a semiaquatic, brown lizard native to the Southeast Asian island of Borneo.
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Early Jurassic
The Early Jurassic epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic period.
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Ecological niche
In ecology, a niche (CanE, or) is the fit of a species living under specific environmental conditions.
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Ectotherm
An ectotherm (from the Greek ἐκτός (ektós) "outside" and θερμός (thermós) "hot"), is an organism in which internal physiological sources of heat are of relatively small or quite negligible importance in controlling body temperature.
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Egg incubation
Incubation refers to the process by which certain oviparous (egg-laying) animals hatch their eggs; it also refers to the development of the embryo within the egg.
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Erhard's wall lizard
Erhard's wall lizard (Podarcis erhardii), also called the Aegean wall lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae.
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Ernest Ingersoll
Ernest Ingersoll (March 13, 1852 – November 13, 1946) was an American naturalist, writer and explorer.
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Eublepharidae
The Eublepharidae are a family of geckos consisting of 30 described species in six genera.
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Eublepharis
The genus Eublepharis, also known as the leopard geckos, was first described by the British zoologist John Edward Gray in 1827.
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Euposauridae
Euposauridae was a family of lizards from the Jurassic of Europe.
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Eusociality
Eusociality (from Greek εὖ eu "good" and social), the highest level of organization of animal sociality, is defined by the following characteristics: cooperative brood care (including care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generations within a colony of adults, and a division of labor into reproductive and non-reproductive groups.
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Evolution of snake venom
Venom in snakes and some lizards is a form of saliva that has been modified into venom over its evolutionary history.
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Exenatide
Exenatide (marketed as Byetta, Bydureon) is a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 receptor agonist) medication, belonging to the group of incretin mimetics, approved in April 2005 for the treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Felidae
The biological family Felidae is a lineage of carnivorans colloquially referred to as cats.
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Flat-tail horned lizard
The flat-tail horned lizard (Phrynosoma mcallii) is a species of reptile of the Sonoran desert of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
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Gait
Gait is the pattern of movement of the limbs of animals, including humans, during locomotion over a solid substrate.
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Galapagos racer
The Galápagos racer (Pseudalsophis biserialis or Philodryas biserialis) is a Colubrid snake in the genus Pseudalsophis which is endemic to the Galápagos Islands.
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Gambelia
Gambelia is a genus of lizards, commonly known as leopard lizards, within the subfamily Crotaphytinae.
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Gecko
Geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world.
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Geckolepis megalepis
Geckolepis megalepis is a species of gecko found in the limestone karst formations of northern Madagascar.
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Gekkonidae
Gekkonidae is the largest family of geckos, containing over 950 described species in 61 genera.
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Gekkota
Gekkota is an infraorder of squamate reptiles in the suborder Scleroglossa, comprising all geckos and the limbless "snake-lizards" of family Pygopodidae.
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Gerrhosauridae
The Gerrhosauridae are a family of lizards native to Africa and Madagascar.
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Gila monster
The Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) is a species of venomous lizard native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexican state of Sonora.
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Gland
A gland is a group of cells in an animal's body that synthesizes substances (such as hormones) for release into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).
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Gobiguania
Gobiguania is an extinct clade of iguanian lizards from the Late Cretaceous.
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Grasshopper
Grasshoppers are insects of the suborder Caelifera within the order Orthoptera, which includes crickets and their allies in the other suborder Ensifera.
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Greater short-horned lizard
The greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi), also commonly known as the mountain short-horned lizard, is a species of lizard endemic to western North America.
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Green iguana
The green iguana (Iguana iguana), also known as the American iguana, is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
ABC-CLIO/Greenwood is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO.
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Gut flora
Gut flora, or gut microbiota, or gastrointestinal microbiota, is the complex community of microorganisms that live in the digestive tracts of humans and other animals, including insects.
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Gymnophthalmidae
Gymnophthalmidae is a family of lizards with at least 250 species, sometimes known as spectacled lizards or microteiids.
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Hearing
Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds by detecting vibrations, changes in the pressure of the surrounding medium through time, through an organ such as the ear.
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Heloderma
Heloderma, the only genus of the family Helodermatidae, consists of venomous lizards native to the southwestern United States, Mexico, and as far south as Guatemala.
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Hemipenis
A hemipenis (plural hemipenes) is one of a pair of intromittent organs of male squamates (snakes, lizards and worm lizards).
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Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.
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Heterogametic sex
Heterogametic sex (digametic sex) refers to the sex of a species in which the sex chromosomes are not the same.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Hoplocercinae
Hoplocercinae are a subfamily of lizards native to the tropical forests, woodlands and savanna-like habitats of Central and South America.
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Horned lizard
Horned lizards (Phrynosoma), also known as horny toads or horntoads, are a genus of North American lizards and the type genus of the subfamily Phrynosomatinae.
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Iguana
Iguana is a genus of herbivorous lizards that are native to tropical areas of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
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Iguanidae
The Iguanidae are a family of lizards composed of iguanas and related species.
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Iguanomorpha
Iguania is an infraorder of squamate reptiles that includes iguanas, chameleons, agamids, and New World lizards like anoles and phrynosomatids.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Insect
Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
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Italian wall lizard
The Italian wall lizard, ruin lizard, or İstanbul lizard (Podarcis sicula from the Greek meaning 'agile' and 'feet') is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae.
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Jacques Gauthier
Jacques Armand Gauthier (born June 7, 1948 in New York City) is an American vertebrate paleontologist, comparative morphologist, and systematist, and one of the founders of the use of cladistics in biology.
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James Macartney (anatomist)
James Macartney (born 8 March 1770 in Armagh, died 6 March 1843 in Dublin) was an anatomist.
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John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.
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Kelp
Kelps are large brown algae seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales.
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Keratin
Keratin is one of a family of fibrous structural proteins.
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Komodo dragon
The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), also known as the Komodo monitor, is a species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang, and Padar.
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Kuehneosauridae
Kuehneosauridae is an extinct family of small, lizard-like lepidosauromorph diapsids known from the Triassic period of Europe and North America.
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Lace monitor
The lace monitor or lace goanna (Varanus varius) is a member of the monitor lizard family, Australian members of which are commonly known as goannas.
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Lacertidae
The Lacertidae are the family of the wall lizards, true lizards, or sometimes simply lacertas, which are native to Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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Lacertoidea
The Lacertoidea is a group of lizards that includes the Lacertidae, Teiidae, Gymnophthalmidae, and the burrowing Amphisbaenia.
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Late Triassic
The Late Triassic is the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic Period in the geologic timescale.
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Legless lizard
Legless lizard may refer to any of several groups of lizards that have independently lost limbs or reduced them to the point of being of no use in locomotion.
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Leiosauridae
Leiosauridae is a family of lizards.
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Lepidosauria
The Lepidosauria (from Greek meaning scaled lizards) are reptiles with overlapping scales.
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Lepidosauromorpha
Lepidosauromorpha is a group of reptiles comprising all diapsids closer to lizards than to archosaurs (which include crocodiles and birds).
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Leporidae
Leporidae is the family of rabbits and hares, containing over 60 species of extant mammals in all.
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Liolaemidae
Liolaemidae are a family of iguanian lizards.
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List of camouflage methods
Camouflage is the concealment of animals or objects of military interest by any combination of methods that helps them to remain unnoticed.
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Maharashtra
Maharashtra (abbr. MH) is a state in the western region of India and is India's second-most populous state and third-largest state by area.
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Marine iguana
The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), also known as the Galápagos marine iguana, is a species of iguana found only on the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador) that has the ability, unique among modern lizards, to forage in the sea, making it a marine reptile.
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Masticophis
Masticophis is a genus of colubrid snakes, commonly referred to as whip snakes or coachwhips, which are endemic to the Americas.
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Mating call
A mating call is the auditory signal used by animals to attract mates.
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Medication
A medication (also referred to as medicine, pharmaceutical drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.
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Mexican beaded lizard
The Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum) is a species of lizard in the family Helodermatidae, one of the two species of venomous beaded lizards found principally in Mexico and southern Guatemala.
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Molecular phylogenetics
Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominately in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.
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Monitor lizard
The monitor lizards are large lizards in the genus Varanus.
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Mosasaur
Mosasaurs (from Latin Mosa meaning the 'Meuse river', and Greek σαύρος sauros meaning 'lizard') are an extinct group of large marine reptiles containing 38 genera in total.
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Moth
Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
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Night lizard
Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) are a group of small scincomorph lizards, averaging from less than 4 cm to over 12 cm snout-vent length.
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Nocturnality
Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
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Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
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Olfaction
Olfaction is a chemoreception that forms the sense of smell.
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Onomatopoeia
An onomatopoeia (from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία; ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "I make", adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes.
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Opluridae
The Opluridae, or Madagascan iguanas, are a family of moderately sized lizards native to Madagascar and Grande Comore.
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Order (biology)
In biological classification, the order (ordo) is.
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Osteoderm
Osteoderms are bony deposits forming scales, plates or other structures based in the dermis.
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Oviparity
Oviparous animals are animals that lay eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother.
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Pantestudines
Pantestudines is the group of all tetrapods more closely related to turtles than to any other animals.
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Paramacellodidae
Paramacellodidae is an extinct family of scincomorph lizards that first appeared in the Middle Jurassic around 170 million years ago (Ma) and became extinct in the Early Cretaceous about 100 Ma.
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Paraphyly
In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.
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Parietal eye
A parietal eye, also known as a third eye or pineal eye, is a part of the epithalamus present in some animal species.
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Parthenogenesis
Parthenogenesis (from the Greek label + label) is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilization.
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Permian
The Permian is a geologic period and system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic period 251.902 Mya.
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Pet
A pet or companion animal is an animal kept primarily for a person's company, protection, or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or laboratory animal.
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Pheromone
A pheromone (from Ancient Greek φέρω phero "to bear" and hormone, from Ancient Greek ὁρμή "impetus") is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.
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Phrynosomatinae
The Phrynosomatinae are a diverse subfamily of lizards, sometimes classified as a separate family (Phrynosomatidae), found from Panama to the extreme south of Canada.
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Phyllodactylidae
The Phyllodactylidae are a family of geckos (Gekkota) consisting of approximately 113 species, distributed throughout the New World, North Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
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Placenta
The placenta is an organ that connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall to allow nutrient uptake, thermo-regulation, waste elimination, and gas exchange via the mother's blood supply; to fight against internal infection; and to produce hormones which support pregnancy.
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Platynota
Platynota is a group of anguimorph lizards and thus belongs to the order Squamata of the class Reptilia.
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Pleurodont
Pleurodont is a formation of the teeth that are fused (ankylosed) by their sides to the inner surface of the jaw bones.
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Pleurodonta
Pleurodonta (from Greek lateral teeth, in reference to the position of the teeth on the jaw) is one of the two subdivisions of Iguania, the other being Acrodonta (teeth on the top). Pleurodonta includes all families previously split from Iguanidae sensu lato (Corytophanidae, Crotaphytidae, Hoplocercidae, Opluridae, Polychrotidae, etc.), whereas Acrodonta includes Agamidae and Chamaeleonidae.
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Pogona
Pogona is a genus of reptiles containing nine lizard species (according to some sources, but some others say eight) which are often known by the common name bearded dragons.
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Polychrotinae
The Polychrotinae subfamily (sometimes classified as the Polychrotidae family instead) of iguanian lizards contains the living genus Polychrus (commonly called bush anoles) and the extinct genus Afairiguana.
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Prairie skink
The prairie skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis) is a species of skink endemic to the prairies east of the Rocky Mountains in North America.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).
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Prehensility
Prehensility is the quality of an appendage or organ that has adapted for grasping or holding.
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Priscagamidae
Priscagamidae is an extinct family of iguanian lizards known from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and China and the Eocene of India, spanning a range from 75 to 54 million years ago.
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Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
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Pygopodidae
Pygopodidae (commonly known as legless lizards, snake-lizards, or flap-footed lizards) is a family of squamates with reduced or absent limbs, and are a type of gecko.
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Quadrate bone
The quadrate bone is part of a skull in most tetrapods, including amphibians, sauropsids (reptiles, birds), and early synapsids.
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Quaternary
Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
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Rattlesnake
Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous snakes of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers).
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Regeneration (biology)
In biology, regeneration is the process of renewal, restoration, and growth that makes genomes, cells, organisms, and ecosystems resilient to natural fluctuations or events that cause disturbance or damage.
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Reptile
Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.
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Rhynchocephalia
Rhynchocephalia is an order of lizard-like reptiles that includes only one living species of tuatara, which in turn has two subspecies (Sphenodon punctatus punctatus and Sphenodon punctatus guntheri), which only inhabit parts of New Zealand.
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Rock monitor
The rock monitor (Varanus albigularis), also called the leguaan, likkewaan or black-throated monitor, is a species of monitor lizard found in Central, East and southern Africa.
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Rodent
Rodents (from Latin rodere, "to gnaw") are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.
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Ross Piper
Ross Piper is a British zoologist, entomologist, and explorer.
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Sauria
The clade Sauria was traditionally a suborder for lizards which originally (before 1800) comprised crocodilians too.
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Savannah monitor
The savannah monitor (Varanus exanthematicus) is a medium-sized species of monitor lizard native to Africa.
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Scale (anatomy)
In most biological nomenclature, a scale (Greek λεπίς lepis, Latin squama) is a small rigid plate that grows out of an animal's skin to provide protection.
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Scavenger
Scavenging is both a carnivorous and a herbivorous feeding behavior in which the scavenger feeds on dead animal and plant material present in its habitat.
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Scincomorpha
Scincomorpha is an infraorder of lizards.
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Sense
A sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception.
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Sex chromosome
An allosome (also referred to as a sex chromosome, heterotypical chromosome, heterochromosome, or idiochromosome) is a chromosome that differs from an ordinary autosome in form, size, and behavior.
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Shinisauria
Shinisauria is a clade or evolutionary grouping of anguimorph lizards that includes the living Chinese crocodile lizard Shinisaurus and several of its closest extinct relatives.
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Shinisauridae
Shinisauridae is a family of anguimorph lizards whose only living representative is the Chinese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus) from China and Vietnam, but which also includes the extinct genus Bahndwivici from the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming in the United States.
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Side-blotched lizard
Side-blotched lizards are lizards of the genus Uta.
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Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.
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Skink
Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae and the infraorder Scincomorpha.
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Skull
The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.
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Smith's dwarf chameleon
Smith's dwarf chameleon or the Elandsberg dwarf chameleon, Bradypodion taeniabronchum, is an endangered species of lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae endemic to South Africa.
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Snail
Snail is a common name loosely applied to shelled gastropods.
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Snake
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.
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Somatosensory system
The somatosensory system is a part of the sensory nervous system.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Sphaerodactylidae
The Sphaerodactylidae are a family of geckos distributed in North America, South America, and the Caribbean, as well as in Southern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and into Central Asia.
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Sphaerodactylus ariasae
Sphaerodactylus ariasae, commonly called the Jaragua sphaero or the Jaragua dwarf gecko, is a very small species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae.
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Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.
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Spiny lizard
Spiny lizards is the common name for the genus Sceloporus in the subfamily Phrynosomatinae.
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Squamata
Squamata is the largest order of reptiles, comprising lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians (worm lizards), which are collectively known as squamates or scaled reptiles.
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Tarentola mauritanica
Tarentola mauritanica is a species of gecko (Gekkota) native to the western Mediterranean area of Northwestern Africa and Europe and widely introduced to America and Asia.
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Tegu
A tegu is a member of a number of lizard species that belong to the family Teiidae.
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Teiidae
Teiidae is a family of autarchoglossan lizards native to the Americas.
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Temperature-dependent sex determination
Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) is a type of environmental sex determination in which the temperatures experienced during embryonic/larval development determine the sex of the offspring.
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Termite
Termites are eusocial insects that are classified at the taxonomic rank of infraorder Isoptera, or as epifamily Termitoidae within the cockroach order Blattodea.
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Territory (animal)
In ethology, territory is the sociographical area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against conspecifics (or, occasionally, animals of other species).
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Tertiary
Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago, a timespan that occurs between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary.
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Tiki Formation
The Tiki Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in India.
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Tiliqua scincoides
Tiliqua scincoides (common blue-tongued skink, common bluetongue) is a species of skink in the genus Tiliqua.
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Tokay gecko
The tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) is a nocturnal arboreal gecko in the genus Gekko, the true geckos.
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Toxicofera
Toxicofera (Greek for "those who bear toxins") is a proposed clade of scaled reptiles (squamates) that includes the Serpentes (snakes), Anguimorpha (monitor lizards, gila monster, and alligator lizards) and Iguania (iguanas, agamas, and chameleons).
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Toxin
A toxin (from toxikon) is a poisonous substance produced within living cells or organisms; synthetic toxicants created by artificial processes are thus excluded.
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Triassic
The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya.
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Tropidurinae
The Tropidurinae are a subfamily of iguanid lizards.
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Tuatara
Tuatara are reptiles endemic to New Zealand.
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Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength from 10 nm to 400 nm, shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays.
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University of Alabama
The University of Alabama (Alabama or UA) is a public research university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the flagship of the University of Alabama System.
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Uromastyx
Uromastyx is a genus of African and Asian agamid lizards, the member species of which are commonly called spiny-tailed lizards, uromastyces, mastigures, or dabb lizards.
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Uroplatus fimbriatus
Uroplatus fimbriatus (giant leaf-tailed gecko) is a gecko endemic to Madagascar.
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Urosaurus
Urosaurus is a genus of lizards, commonly known as tree lizards or brush lizards, belonging to the New World family Phrynosomatidae.
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Van der Waals force
In molecular physics, the van der Waals forces, named after Dutch scientist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, are distance-dependent interactions between atoms or molecules.
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Varanidae
The Varanidae are a family of lizards in the superfamily Varanoidea.
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Varanoidea
Varanoidea is a superfamily of lizards, including the well-known family Varanidae (the monitors or goanna).
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Veiled chameleon
The veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) is a species of chameleon native to the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
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Venom
Venomous Animals Venom is a form of toxin secreted by an animal for the purpose of causing harm to another.
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Vertebrate
Vertebrates comprise all species of animals within the subphylum Vertebrata (chordates with backbones).
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Vincent of Beauvais
Vincent of Beauvais (Vincentius Bellovacensis or Vincentius Burgundus; 1184/1194 – c. 1264) was a Dominican friar at the Cistercian monastery of Royaumont Abbey, France.
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Visual perception
Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment using light in the visible spectrum reflected by the objects in the environment.
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Viviparity
Among animals, viviparity is development of the embryo inside the body of the parent, eventually leading to live birth, as opposed to reproduction by laying eggs that complete their incubation outside the parental body.
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Vomeronasal organ
The vomeronasal organ (VNO), or the Jacobson's organ, is an auxiliary olfactory sense organ that is found in many animals.
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Water buffalo
The water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) or domestic Asian water buffalo is a large bovid originating in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China.
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Xenosauridae
Xenosauridae is a family of anguimorph lizards whose only living representative is the genus Xenosaurus, which is native to Central America.
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Yolk
Among animals which produce one, the yolk (also known as the vitellus) is the nutrient-bearing portion of the egg whose primary function is to supply food for the development of the embryo.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard