25 Unknown Facts about Reptiles | Amazing Facts 4U
- Reptiles have backbones and are covered with scales. They lay eggs but don’t look after the offsprings.
- It’s amazing that crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar.
- A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and amazingly it can’t stick it out.
- Crocodile babies don’t have sex chromosomes. Amazingly sex of crocodiles is determined by the incubation temperature. They become females at temperatures below 85 degrees and become males above 95 degrees.
- Crocodiles (Reptiles) swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
- Crocodiles can’t chew. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeball. Amazingly, It will let you go instantly.
- The crocodile is surprisingly fast on land. If pursued by a crocodile, you should run in a zigzag motion since the crocodile can not change direction suddenly.
- The amazing fact is that you can keep a crocodile’s mouth shut with a thick rubber band as the muscles for opening the jaws are very weak!
- An alligator has 80 teeth in its mouth at one time. It can go through 3000 teeth in a lifetime.
- Alligator and crocodile teeth are hollow. The new tooth grows inside the old one in order to be ready once the old tooth is lost.
- Amazingly alligators can go without food for up to 3 years!
- Snakes are immune to their own poison.
- There are no snakes in New Zealand. Also, there are no venomous snakes in the Maine state of the US.
- When snakes are born with two heads, amazingly they fight each other for food.
- Beware. Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
- You can’t suck the venom out of a snakebite unlike what is shown in movies since the venom enters the bloodstream far too quickly to be sucked out effectively.
- Snakes continue to grow until the day they die.
- Amazingly the flying snake of Java and Malaysia is able to flatten itself out like a ribbon and sail like a glider from tree to tree.
- The most venomous of all snakes, known as the Inland Taipan has amazingly enough venom in one bite to kill over 200,000 mice.
- Snakes are the true carnivores since they don’t eat any type of plant. They eat nothing but other animals. The stomach acids in a snake’s stomach amazingly digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair.
- It’s amazing that cobras are able to kill immediately after they are born.
- The fastest-moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 7 miles per hour.
- Sea snakes are the most poisonous snakes in the world.
- A chameleon’s tongue is amazing twice the length of its body. Also chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time independently. A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
- Tuatara lizards, from New Zealand, have two eyes in the center of their heads and the third one on top of their heads.
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