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  2. Lepidosauria - Wikipedia

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    Chameleons grasp their prey with a projectile tongue. This is made possible by a hyoid mechanism, which is the contraction of the hyoid muscle that drives the tip of the tongue outwards. [33] An eastern blue-tongued lizard preyed upon by an eastern brown snake. Within the subclass Lepidosauria there are herbivores, omnivores, insectivores, and ...

  3. Nyctosauridae - Wikipedia

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    Nyctosauridae (meaning "night lizards" or "bat lizards") is a family of specialized soaring pterosaurs of the late Cretaceous Period of North America, Africa, and possibly other continents including South America. It was named in 1889 by Henry Alleyne Nicholson and Richard Lydekker. [2]

  4. Draco maculatus - Wikipedia

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    Draco maculatus, commonly known as the spotted flying dragon or spotted gliding lizard, is a species of agamid flying lizard endemic to Southeast Asia. It is capable of gliding from tree to tree. It is capable of gliding from tree to tree.

  5. Synodontidae - Wikipedia

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    They have mouths full of sharp teeth, even on the tongue. [1] Lizardfishes are benthic animals that live in shallow coastal waters; even the deepest-dwelling species of lizardfish live in waters no more than 400 m (1,300 ft) deep. Some species in the subfamily Harpadontinae live in brackish estuaries. They prefer sandy environments, and ...

  6. Blue-tongued skink - Wikipedia

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    They are commonly called blue-tongued lizards or simply blue-tongues or blueys in Australia or panana in Indonesia. As suggested by these common names, a prominent characteristic of the genus is a large blue tongue that can be bared as bluff-warning to potential enemies. [ 3 ]

  7. Insect morphology - Wikipedia

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    The liquid food is then drawn up from the pseudotracheae through the food channel into the esophagus. [36] The mouthparts of bees are of a chewing and lapping-sucking type. Lapping is a mode of feeding in which liquid or semiliquid food adhering to a protrusible organ, or "tongue", is transferred from substrate to mouth.

  8. This big lizard is orange and blue, and invasive. It may live ...

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    Agamas feed mostly on ants, grasshoppers, crickets and beetles and other insects, but they've also been seen eating snakes, lizards, birds and mammals, as well as their own offspring, the FWC said.

  9. Insect mouthparts - Wikipedia

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    The development of insect mouthparts from the primitive chewing mouthparts of a grasshopper in the centre (A), to the lapping type (B) of a bee, the siphoning type (C) of a butterfly and the sucking type (D) of a female mosquito.