16 Evidences of Complex Design in Reptiles
1. Snake Eating Habits
Certain types of snakes can
go months without eating. This is especially true of the big constrictors, such
as the Anaconda and the reticulated python. Snakes eat large meals (relative to
their body size), and they have much slower metabolisms than we humans have.
This partly explains how they can go so long between meals.
2. Snake and Lizard Tongues
Snakes and lizards flick
their tongues in the air to capture scent particles. They don't smell through
their noses like you and I. Instead, they use their tongues to collect scent
particles and then pass the particles over something called a Jacobson's organ
to decipher the air around them. This is partly how reptiles hunt for food.
3. A chameleon tongue
A chameleon’s tongue is at
least as long as its body and capable of stretching to a length more than three
times its body length to capture food. When it sees its prey, the chameleon’s
tongue is catapulted out of its mouth at super speed and caught with the sticky
tip of its tongue.
4. Chameleon eyes
A chameleon can move its
eyes in any two separate directions at the same time.
5. Gecko Tails
Some species of gecko use
their tails as a defensive tool. When attacked, the gecko will wiggle its tail
to lure the attacking creature. When the animal bites onto the tail, the gecko
can detach the tail and make its escape. In most cases, a new tail will grow in
place of the old one.
6. Frog Ears
Frogs do not have outside
ears, but they have ear holes of sorts, that are covered with thin tympanic
membranes, or eardrums, that protect the inner ear cavity and help transmit
sound vibrations. They hear with these structures and also their lungs, which
vibrate in response to noise.
7. Panamanian Golden Frog
However, one species of
frog named Panamanian Golden Frog, does not have ears at all. They can only
listen with the help of their lungs.
8. The Crocodile
A crocodile can remain without food for two
9. Snake Eyesite
Even when a snake's eyes
are closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
10. The Black Mamba
The fastest moving snake on
land is the Black Mamba, with speeds in excess of 12 miles per hour.
11. Surinam Toads
Male Surinam toads attach
the females eggs to the back of the female during spawning. The eggs are then
absorbed by the spongy dorsal skin. Each egg is embedded into its own
honeycomb-like chamber on the toad’s back.
They remain there for up to twenty weeks before they emerge by
pushing through their mother’s skin and emerging fully metamorphosed frogs.
They remain there for up to twenty weeks before they emerge by pushing through their mother’s skin and emerging fully metamorphosed frogs.