REPTILES: Reptile is a common name applied to the members of the Vertebrate class. This class includes snakes, lizards, turtles, crocodiles, and tuatara and other extinct species. Among all of the existing reptiles there are 2,500 species of snakes; 2,500 species of lizards; about 250 species of turtles; 22 species of crocodilians, and two species of tuataras. They are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the world. Since reptiles are cold blooded they can not live in …showed first 75 words of 1779 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1779 total…human habitation spreads the habitation of the turtle, crocodile and snakes disappear. Turtles out of all these reptiles are easiest to obtain because they are so slow moving and easily gotten for food. Whalers and pirates slaughtered many tortoises of the Galapagos Islands in order to supply fresh meat for the ship. In North America River channeling, swamp draining and high construction have taken away all these reptiles habitats making it very hard to survive.