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What are the tough leatherly eggs of reptiles and birds called?
amnionic eggs
What make reptiles distinctive?
Reptiles are cold blooded (cannot regulate body temperature) animals. Reptiles are vertebrates (with a backbone). Their bodies are covered with scales or scutes. They lay eggs. Reptiles skin is tough, rough and scaly.
What are tough leathery eggs of reptiles and birds called?
Most reptile eggs are leathery to protect them when laid in holes where they drop into contact with other eggs and it serves to make them more resiliant when covring the eggs with sand, dirt and other debris to conceal them.
Do crocodiles produce amniotic eggs?
Yes, crocodiles are reptiles and they lay amniotic eggs with protective shells that allow the embryos to develop outside of the mother's body. This is a characteristic feature of reptiles, including crocodiles.
Is a amniotic egg a characteristic of reptiles?
The amnion is a semi-permeable membrane that retains moisture within the egg, thus preventing it from drying out, but permits the exchange of gasses, thus enabling the developing animal to breathe. With its evolution, it became possible for the amniotes (such as reptiles) to lay their eggs away from water and still successfully reproduce, as all embryos need to develop in a moisture-rich environment. Amphibian eggs lack the amnion, just as all the early tetrapod eggs did, and they could never lay their eggs in a dry environment, as their embryos would die long before they fully developed.
Do reptiles birth from eggs or womb?
Most reptiles lay eggs.
Do Fish and reptiles lay eggs?
fish and reptiles lay eggs
Are snake reptiles?
Snakes are reptiles because they are cold-blooded, have tough skin or scales, and usually lay eggs with an amniotic sac. So are lizards, turtles and crocodilians are as well.
Do reptiles lay eggs for their babies?
reptiles lay eggs, if thats what you mean
How do the eggs of birds and reptiles differ?
A reptile egg is much much much softer than birds egg.
How many species of snakes lay eggs?
Snakes are reptiles, and all reptiles lay eggs. That is a basic characteristic of reptiles.
Do reptiles lay eggs or born alive?
Eggs. Reptiles are cold blooded and NOT mammals.
