### animal | vertebrate | reptile | lizard | spiny lizard:

Fence lizard
* live in the southern half and into the northeast corner of Missouri.
* spiny lizard
* vary in color from gray to brown.

Sagebrush lizard
* are reptiles
  - small, reclusive, and extremely quick
* eat a wide variety of insects.

Wall lizard
* Most wall lizards prefer habitats.
* Some wall lizards love owners
  - pet owners

### animal | vertebrate | reptile | lizard:

Whiptail
* Most whiptails have bellies.
* Some whiptails are very unusual in that their population consist entirely of females.
* Some whiptails eat arthropods
  - emerge from hibernation
  - have stripes
  - occur in grassland
* are long, slender lizards with pointed snouts and extremely long tails
  - probably the most underrated catfishes in the hobby
* feed on a variety of terrestrial invertebrates and occasionally on smaller lizards.
  - large, square belly scales arranged lengthwise and transverse rows
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - ears
  - faces
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
* live in the Southwest, Mexico and South America and are the only known unisexual reptile.
* seem to travel faster when in the open, relying primarily on vision to detect prey.

Whiptail lizard
* Most whiptail lizards eat scorpions.
* are lizards.
* bolt in straight lines across the desert floor.
* dart on patrol through the brush in search of insects.

### animal | vertebrate | reptile | lizard | whiptail lizard:

Racerunner
* bask atop rocks or logs and actively forage for their food.
* vary considerably in coloration and pattern, even within a species.

Western whiptail
* Most western whiptails have bellies.
* Some western whiptails eat arthropods

Male reptile
* Most male reptiles are larger than the female of the species e.g. red-eared terrapins.
* release their sperm inside a female.

Marine reptile
* Some marine reptiles can develop chronic chemical toxicities if kept in tap water.
* evolve, such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.
* meet fate.

Modern reptile
* Most modern reptiles have hearts
  - show development
* Some modern reptiles possess shells.
* inhabit every continent with the exception of Antarctica.
* live on every continent except Antarctica.

Nocturnal reptile
* Most nocturnal reptiles live in cold temperate zones
* are most active on above average temperature nights during the summer months.

Other reptile
* eat insects.
* excrete waste.
* have hearts
  - limbs
  - teeth

Plesiosaur
* are a group of marine predators that descended from terrestrial ancestors
  - animals
  - one of a type of reptiles that returned to the sea
* fall into two groups.

Pterodactyl
* are pterosaurs.
* glide above a soggy marsh.
* have extremely fragile wings.
* patrol the skies.

### animal | vertebrate | reptile:

Pterosaur
* are a distinct group that went extinct about the time that birds arose
  - group of flying reptiles, distantly related to the dinosaurs
  - known to have been eaten by theropods
* are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight
  - have flown
* feed in a diversity of ways.
* fly in and fly with their lower jaws skimming in the surface of the lake for fish.
* have the same general stratigraphic range as dinosaurs do.
* maybe are dinosaurs.
* seem to have the same speed range as modern birds.
  * are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight. The pterosaurs fall into two groups.