TABLE OF CONTENTS

TURTLES
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SNAKES Page 1

LIZARDS Page 2-3

CHAMELEONS Page 3

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Reptiles

Turtles

Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines. They are characterized by a

special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs that acts as a
shield. "Turtle" may refer to the order as a whole or to fresh-water and
sea-dwelling Testudines. Testudines includes both extant and extinct
species.

Did you know?

Turtles live for about 100 years.

Snakes
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder
Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniotes
vertebrates covered in overlapping scales.

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Snakes do not have eyelids.

Lizards
Lizards are a widespread group of squamae reptiles, with over 6,000
species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most
oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic as it excludes the snakes
and Amphisbaena; some lizards are more closely related to these two
excluded groups than they are to other lizards. Lizards range in size from
chameleons and geckos a few centimetres long to the 3-meter-long
Komodo dragon.

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Did you know?
Some lizards can detach their tails if caught by predators.

Chameleons
Chameleons or chameleons are a distinctive and highly specialized clade
of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015. These
species come in a range of colours, and many species have the ability to
change colour.

Did you know?

Their feet work like salad tongs.