It is night in a desert. A small lizard lies covered with sand. Only its head sticks out. It is using the sand like a blanket to keep its body warm during the cool night. When the sun comes up,...
Moving without legs
Snakes have no legs at all, but they move quite well without them. A snake can go zig-zagging over the ground just about as fast as you can walk. Most snakes leave a wiggly trail when they crawl....
Suppers for snakes
Snakes eat only live food. Most snakes eat rats, birds, lizards, and rabbits. Small snakes eat mice, worms, frogs, snails, and insects. Snakes called hook-nosed snakes eat mostly spiders. African...
New skins for old
A shiny garter snake wiggles through the grass. Its wrinkled old skin hangs from the tip of its tail. The snake comes to some rocks. It slides between them. The old skin catches on one of the rocks....
Scaly babies and mothers
A large American alligator crawls into some thorny bushes. She pulls up bushes with her mouth. She stamps her feet. Soon, she has macle a wide, clear place. She makes a pile of mud and plants. She...
Meet the reptiles
You can always tell a turtle by its shell. A box turtle has a high, round shell that it can close up like a box. A map turtle has a wide, flat shell with bumpy edges. A soft-shelled turtle's shell...
This reptile
This is a looking page. Look at this turtle. The turtle's head looks as if an artist had painted stripes and spots on it. That's why this kind of turtle is called a painted turtle. The turtle's...
It’s a Reptile
> A gila monster is a reptile. Suppose you found some hard-shelled eggs lying on the ground. And suppose that some little scaly skinned creatures hatched out of them. What kind of animal would...
