Reptiles

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Reptiles (IPA: /ˈreptəl/) are cold-blooded vertebrates in the class Reptilia, a paraphyletic grouping comprising all amniotes. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, birds, dragons, squamates and rhynchocephalians that have scaly bodies rather than hair or feathers; most reptile species lay eggs, some species like snakes to lizards — give birth to live young.


A class of archosaurian reptiles that existed from the Mid Triassic Period (230 mya) to the present day are known as the Dinosaurs, or Dinosauria. Perhaps the most well-known animals to have ever lived on Earth are dinosaurs. Anatomist Sir Richard Owen initially defined them as a group in a presentation in 1841, basing his description on three genera: Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, and Hylaeosaurus. With the exception of birds, dinosaurs today comprise more than a thousand species, hundreds of taxa, and about thirty families. When the first Jurassic Park movie came out in 1993, and the other three films—all save the fourth—which were released every four years, dinosaurs saw a significant surge in popularity.


Theropods are the only family of dinosaurs that survived the Cretaceous extinction, and Queen Arianna of Corona observed that only a small number of dinosaurs are alive today. Members of this family include birds, Saurfolks, and saurischian wyverns like Velocidrome, Yian Garuga, Rathalos, Legiana, Zinogre, Odogaron, Dodogama, Anjanath, and Deviljho. The only sibling group of dinosaurs now living is the crocodilians. The pterosaurs were the closest extinct group. Members of the Assassin Order claimed in 2011 that Mokele-mbembe, a descendant of small amphibious sauropods, was the last known living sauropod in the world following the extinction. All non-avian dinosaurs are extinct (except for Mokele-mbembe, Ngoubou, and a few other verified members).

List of Real-life Reptiles

Plesiosaurs (Plesiosauria)

The Plesiosauria or Plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia. Plesiosaurs first appeared in the latest Triassic Period, possibly in the Rhaetian stage, about 203 million years ago. They became especially common during the Jurassic Period, thriving until their disappearance due to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous Period (except for Nessie and their relatives), about 66 million years ago. They had a worldwide oceanic distribution, and some species at least partly inhabited freshwater environments.


Meiolaniforms (Meiolaniformes)

The Meiolaniformes is an extinct clade of stem-group turtles, defined as all taxa more closely related to Meiolania than to Cryptodira and Pleurodira. It is known from the Early Cretaceous to the Holocene of Australia, Oceania and South America.


Tortoises (Testudinidae)

Reptiles belonging to the family Testudinidae and the order Testudines include turtles. Tortoises, like other turtles, have a shell to protect them from predators and other dangers. Since tortoises often have hard shells, they protect themselves by straightening their heads and necks into the shell, like other members of the suborder Cryptodira.


Sea Turtles (Chelonioidea)

The sea turtles, also known as marine turtles or members of the superfamily Chelonioidea, are reptiles belonging to the suborder Cryptodira and the order Testudines. Males and females of each of the seven species of sea turtles are the same size; there is no sexual dimorphism. In comparison to their terrestrial or freshwater relatives, sea turtles typically have a more fusiform body pattern. In contrast to many other turtles and tortoises, sea turtles cannot retract their head and limbs into their shells for protection due to the tapering at both ends, which reduces volume. However, the streamlined body structure makes swimming easier and faster for sea turtles by reducing drag and friction in the water.


Rhynchocephalians (Rhynchocephalia)

The Rhynchocephalia is an order of lizard-like reptiles that includes only one living species, the tuatara of New Zealand. Despite its current lack of diversity, during the Mesozoic rhynchocephalians were a diverse group including a wide array of ecologies. Most rhynchocephalians belong to the group Sphenodontia. Their closest living relatives are lizards and snakes in the order Squamata, with the two orders being grouped together in the superorder Lepidosauria. Sphenodonts, and their sister group Squamata (which includes lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians), belong to the superorder Lepidosauria, the only surviving taxon within Lepidosauromorpha.


Leviathan Wyverns (Taninosauria)

The Leviathans or Aquatic Wyverns (Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎚𐎐, transliterated Lôtān; Hebrew: לִוְיָתָן, Līwyāṯān / livyathan; Enchan: dialaz'aish; Saurfolk: Wiverná Jokkohėsla; Avalonian: Thyaissa; Scottish Gaelic: Dearcan-mara) are semi-aquatic saurischians first appearing in the Worldcraft fifth generation. This class consists of large wyvern saurischians that are specialized in swimming or sliding. Leviathan wyverns are known to usually be the top predators of their environments like Flying Wyverns and others. Leviathan Wyvern's word in Scottish Gaelic was dearcan-mara, which means "sea-lizard".


Flying Wyverns (Viperopoda)

The Flying Wyverns (Saurfolk: Wiverná Dnosawï; Scottish Gaelic: Dragón ag Itealaich) are large, bipedal saurischians that have two wings that were first introduced in Worldcraft: Dharma and Karma. Known for their mastery of flight, a majority of the monsters in this classification have evolved powerful wings that allow them to fly. However, some Flying Wyverns are quadrupedal, utilizing their wings as forearms to further enhance their movements on land, while other members in this class are flightless, or even wingless despite their classification. In the other hand, some winged ones are less capable of sustained flight


Bird Wyverns (Terrapodaves)

The Raptorial Wyverns (Saurfolk: Wiverná Teropodá; Scottish Gaelic: Dragón ag Rianadair) are large, bipedal saurischians that are flightless and that were first introduced in Moon's Desired. Theropod Wyverns are reminiscent of theropods: flightless, bipedal creatures with long tails and powerful legs. Unlike them, however, these monsters are generally quite small. Furthermore, Theropod Wyverns almost always live under a social hierarchy, with young individuals, females and beta males led by a strong, dominant alpha male, which can command and control his subjects during combat.


Hamsas / Waterfowl Wyverns (Anserosauria)

The Hamsas or Waterfowl Wyverns (Sanskrit: हंस, haṃsa or hansa) is an waterfowl-like saurischians, which various scholars have interpreted as the goose, swan, plover, penguin, grebe, auk, duck, or even the flamingo. Its icon is used in Indian and Southeast Asian culture as a spiritual symbol and a decorative element.


It is believed by Hindus to be the vahana (or vehicle) of Brahma, Gayatri, Sarasvati, and Vishwakarma. These creatures actually evolved from giant waterfowls evolved from Yi Qi and their wyverns called Bird Wyverns by fans, with a bipedal stance along with developed and functional wings. Many of these possess a hard, sharp beak which can be used to peck at attackers, and generally behave in a bird-like manner, and some are flightless.


Boronas (Accipiterosauria)

The Borona (Baybayin: ᜊᜓᜇᜓᜈ; Jawi: بورونا; Enchan: Borona; Scottish Gaelic: Boronádh) are enormous legendary birds of prey-like reptiles in popular mythology worldwide. Boronas are a mysterious creature that was forced to reside in Encantadia (as resembles to Sawintir) and the Philippines to Fiji (Earth). This theropods refers to it as the most powerful creature in the universe. These creatures actually evolved from giant waterfowls evolved from Yi Qi, with a bipedal stance along with developed and functional wings. Many of these possess a hard, sharp beak which can be used to peck or snatching their talons at attackers, and generally behave in an eagle-like manner, and some are fully predatory pterodactyl-like.


Borona is an invented word from the Enchan language from GMA's Encantadia, from Malagasy for "bird" (vorona translates to "bird"). As in From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buʀuŋ. Cognate with Malay and Indonesian: burung (بوروڠ‎) and Ma'anyan: wurung (ووروڠ).


Brute Wyverns (Theropoda)

The Brute Wyverns (Enchan: Xuroakgon; Avalonian Saurfolk: Nagraotla; Scottish Gaelic: Dearc-luachrach; Tagalog: Malupit ng naga) are a flightless group of saurischian wyverns first introduced in the Third Generation. Greatly these are nonfictional theropods, these animals are well adapted for life on land, using their powerful hindlimbs to get around from place to place rather than using wings or other means to travel. A common trait that most Brute Wyverns share is the small forelimbs that they can barely use, but there are some exceptions that have heavily developed those limbs to use in combat.


Blind Skinks (Dibamidae)

The Dibamidae or Blind Skinks is a family of lizards characterized by their elongated cylindrical body and an apparent lack of limbs. Female dibamids are entirely limbless and the males retain small flap-like hind limbs, which they use to grip their partner during mating. They have a rigidly fused skull, lack pterygoid teeth and external ears. Their eyes are greatly reduced, and covered with a scale.


Skinks (Scincidae)

A skink is a type of lizard characterized by a smooth body and typically reduced or absent limbs and is belonging to the family Scincidae. They are known for burrowing on sandy ground and can be found in various tropical and temperate regions around the world. The term “skink” comes from the Greek word “skinkos” and the Latin “scincus,” which refers to specific lizards. Skinks are part of the family Scincidae and are quite diverse, with over 1,500 described species across different habitats, except in arctic and subarctic regions. Skinks are omnivorous reptiles with a varied diet that primarily includes insects, but they also consume fruit, small mammals, and invertebrates.


Geckos (Gekkota)

The Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica. Belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, most geckos are found in warm climates throughout the world.


Parroffins (Psittacogrypidae)

The Parroffins or Parrot Griffins, are the order of the reptiles under the Squamata (or the scaled reptiles). These are actually are large griffins resembling a parrot and native to Sawintir as common types of griffins. Most of them are in Sawintir and the one species was introduced in Reinachos.


Drakes (Palaeodraconia)

The Palaeodraconia or Drakes (meaning "old dragon"), are the order of the reptiles under the Squamata (or the scaled reptiles). These are actually dragons that are examples of the dragons are terrestrial drakes, sea drakes, wyrms, Chinese dragons, equine dragons, floating drakes and their extinct relatives. These creatures of dragons are flightless, primitive, without any wings, most of the common species are terrestrial, some species spend time in the aquatic or some are floating via their own air sacs or special organs. More common to their features like snakes and mosasaurs than reptilian in nature. Most common finds of the drakes are land or even skies. The Chinese dragons are considered as drakes with elongated bodies, with whiskers for detection and collecting mysterious bioenergy. Some drakes fit another one of the subfamily called Equine Dragons, are horse or unicorn-like with scales and fur.


Winged Dragons (Eurodraconia)

See also: Elder Dragons

The Eurodraconia or winged dragons, European dragons, Eurasian dragons, occidental dragons, or western dragons; are the most common of all known order of the dragons, the only vertebrate having the six limbs: two wings and four legs. These creatures are nearly more intelligent than mammals, and possess magical powers in their own sacs. These creatures are fully sustainable to flight, some species are flightless and devolved their wings into third limbs for running or extra gripping. The European dragons are commonly known for advancing to invade towns and fortresses for unknown reasons. Various parts from the animals depending on the single or more environment like biomes like Drakolossia to Flossepfiz, to Velkhana.


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