FISH, AMPHIBIANS and REPTILES

The first steps up the vertebrate ladder!
Aquatic vertebrates (fish) and the first to
transition from water to land (amphibians
and reptiles), able to free themselves from
water by developing amniotic eggs.

LIZARDS
Hard to find information on a unique group of reptiles found primarily in tropical regins. 20 slides, detailed text.
#418 SLIDES
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TODAY'S DRAGONS: THE LIZARDS Order #418..........$42.50

U.S. and foreign members of this largest, most recently evolved group of
reptiles, highly diverse in their habitats, behaviors and adaptations. Coverage includes:
Komodo dragon, monitor, anole, iguana, fringe toed, horned toad, chuckwalla, water
dragon, geckos, gila monster, tegu, skinks, glass snake, ajolote, girdle tailed, plated
and Jackson's chameleon. 20 slides and guide.

CONTENT SAMPLE: 14126 This one really is a dragon--a Komodo Dragon. These
lizards live only on several tiny East Indian islands and today are among the world’s rare and
endangered animals.

Komodo Dragons may reach ten feet in length and about 300 pounds in weight. They are
both predator and scavenger. They have formidable teeth and claws and can move quickly
enough to catch pigs, deer, and even full grown water buffalo. The young eat insects and small
animals. Both young and old feed happily on dead animals, attracted by the smell. A full grown
Komodo need fear nothing but crocodiles and man. When threatened they escape into water or
down a nearby hole, bluff by hissing and tail lashing, or attack with tooth and claw.

The Komodo Dragon is a member of the monitor family, the least specialized of lizards,
and can run, dig, climb and swim. Monitors are most closely related to snakes and use their
forked tongue as a sense organ to taste the air, just as snakes do.
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~0202-048~ Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis). photo by Charles R. Belinky, Ph.D.

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