The be less specific clue helped me on the turtle. Was it a loggerhead? A green? No, just sea. Also I think, if we're being pedantic, three of these aren't reptiles.
Yes, JMM is correct about this. I've had experience with more than one black mamba, and the best way to identify them is to wait until they are dead and then check if their mouth is black. Because trust me, you don't want to check while it is still alive!
That sounds like very good advise, but something that I hope I never have the opportunity to check for myself - not terribly fond of snakes since being "chased" by a black racer as a child.
I know a lot of what we think about dinosaurs has changed since the last time I paid significant attention to them. Are they still technically considered to be reptiles?
Depends on what classification system you are using. The older (and to most people more intuitive, but also somewhat outdated) Linnaean system classifies animals based on their characteristics, behavior, and sometimes common ancestry. Dinosaurs were thought to be more lizard-like in the past (scaly, slow, cold-blooded) but we now think that much of this characterization was wrong and that dinosaurs in many ways were more similar to large flightless birds.
Phylogenetic classification groups all organisms into nested categories and if one of your ancestors was something, you are also that thing. In phylogenetics an organism can never give birth to something that is not what it is, no matter how many generations pass. So... because dinosaurs evolved from reptiles, dinosaurs are reptiles. Because birds evolved from dinosaurs, birds are dinosaurs. But humans are also technically reptiles with this system, and both birds and humans are technically fish.
Nice quiz but, the 'Gecko' is a leopard Gecko so I think that should really be accepted (as it's a common pet among reptile owners and so many people know it).
Only missed four so quite please as reptiles are something I don't know a lot about, so leaned something today. Did get all the dinosaurs , thanks to having a small son who is obsessed.
I had mistaken the gecko for a fire salamander. I dont know geckos in those colours. The colours instantly trigered fire salamander in my brain (though yes their builds are dfferent)
Also missed skink, didnt know that word, will look it up what it is in my language and if I know it then.. and I forgot stegosarus... Which I do know, but it has been quite some time since I looked at dinosaaurs.
For skink I was actually thinking hazelworm, which is slowworm or blindworm in english, look quite similar, though one of them has feet haha (usually, not always though..)
I was beating my head against the wall trying to figure out why "chamelion" wasn't working. I ended up googling chamelion to see if I was just going crazy and realized it's spelled chameleon. Feel like that could have been put into the accepted misspellings.
I got it by guessing common snake names (the movie Anaconda).
I googled "spot snake", but the spotted house snake takes top billing.
It looks like it may have smooth scales/live near water. And is large/girthy/probably a constrictor.
I guess people would be familiar with the large constrictors. And know that a python looks more like a rattlesnake pattern. But a boa looks like a python too.
Phylogenetic classification groups all organisms into nested categories and if one of your ancestors was something, you are also that thing. In phylogenetics an organism can never give birth to something that is not what it is, no matter how many generations pass. So... because dinosaurs evolved from reptiles, dinosaurs are reptiles. Because birds evolved from dinosaurs, birds are dinosaurs. But humans are also technically reptiles with this system, and both birds and humans are technically fish.
Also missed skink, didnt know that word, will look it up what it is in my language and if I know it then.. and I forgot stegosarus... Which I do know, but it has been quite some time since I looked at dinosaaurs.
I got it by guessing common snake names (the movie Anaconda).
I googled "spot snake", but the spotted house snake takes top billing.
It looks like it may have smooth scales/live near water. And is large/girthy/probably a constrictor.
I guess people would be familiar with the large constrictors. And know that a python looks more like a rattlesnake pattern. But a boa looks like a python too.