reptile
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I felt like Ina Garten, albeit one whose charming village market featured a mechanical reptile.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Documents said the abandoned venture planned to include "reptile, mongoose and several animal enclosures".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Officials issued the alert Monday after a man shared with police an image appearing to show the dangerous reptile slithering from the thin branch of a tree onto the roof of a backyard shed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
A remarkably preserved fossil from China is giving scientists an unusually detailed look inside a marine reptile that lived about 245 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
In my jeans pocket, I carry pictures: Nessa, smiling, at a Jersey dance camp; DeShon, with headphones, cleaning reptile cages at a zoo.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Hippos swim in giant glass-fronted tanks, while other vast sections house reptiles and birds -- including penguins.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Dozens of major groups of mammals and reptiles made this remarkable evolutionary reversal.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Among the discoveries was Pterosphenus rannensis, an ancient aquatic snake species that adds to scientists' understanding of how these reptiles evolved and spread.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Working with the Zoological Society of London, WWF tracks nearly 36,000 populations of almost 6,000 species of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
A sister recalled that Farmer had put an incredible amount of work into his presentation, including charcoal drawings of reptiles and a lecture on various animals’ diets and life spans.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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