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A reptile centre is typically a facility devoted to keeping living reptiles, educating the public about reptiles, and serving as a control centre for collecting reptiles that turn up in populated areas. Most are public-access, run as private business or state-sponsored. Some centres work with venomous reptiles as venom research labs. Others are ...
The Reptile Zoo is an indoor zoo focusing on reptiles in Fountain Valley, California. Fish, amphibians, and arachnids are also on display. It contains the pet store Prehistoric Pets, which sells items targeted towards reptile owners. Almost 200,000 people have visited the zoo since its founding.
The vivarium was owned by Ron Cauble. He opened the business in his basement in Oakland, California in 1970. The first storefront was located on Mac Arthur Blvd. in Oakland, then in 1979 he moved the store to an 8,000-square-foot (740 m 2) storefront in the Emeryville Market in Emeryville. [2]
Reptilia is a collection of Canada's largest indoor reptile zoos, with a combined area of over 84,000 sq ft (7,800 m 2) of indoor exhibits featuring over 250 reptiles, amphibians and arachnids. [1] [2] Currently there are three Ontario locations, one in Vaughan, one in Whitby, and one in London. [3] Basiliscus plumifrons at Reptilia Zoo
The small reptile would have likely roamed the land of what is today southern Brazil, when the world was much hotter. The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles.
The 6,500 square feet (600 m 2) Reptile and Amphibian Gallery houses over 40 species of snakes in naturalistic habitats. In the summer, tortoises and aquatic turtles live outdoors in the gardens. [2] In addition to on-site exhibitions, the zoo does traveling exhibitions, shown at museums, science centers, and zoos. [5]
The eastern indigo snake was first described by John Edwards Holbrook in 1842. For many years the genus Drymarchon was considered monotypic with one species, Drymarchon corais, with 12 subspecies, until the early 1990s when Drymarchon corais couperi was elevated to full species status according to the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, in their official names list.
Parvosuchus lived at a time of evolutionary innovation in the aftermath of Earth's worst mass extinction 252 million years ago, with multiple groups of reptiles competing before dinosaurs ...