Nicolas Cage

I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that.

Actor

Padgett Powell

As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.

American Novelist

Werner Herzog

Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart.

German Director

David Icke

Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.

English Footballer

Laura Vandervoort

A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.

Canadian Actress

Alexandra Petri

Forced to confront a reptile or an international financial crisis, I'll take the reptile every time.

American Journalist

William Blake

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

English Poet

Ralph Steadman

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

British Cartoonist

Alexander Pope

Danny Green

American Athlete

When people talk about reptiles, they mean a group of cold-blooded, scaly-skinned animals.

Group Membership

Reptiles are different from amphibians. Frogs are amphibians, not reptiles.

Not Amphibians

Reptiles live in diverse environments—from deserts to jungles—but not in extremely cold places.

Habitat Diversity

Calling someone a 'reptile' is an insult, suggesting they're cold-hearted or sneaky.

Figurative Use

Using 'reptile' to describe a person is informal and could be offensive in polite discussion.

Colloquial Tone

The word carries negative emotions when used to describe people. Use it carefully.

Emotional Impact

 things like elephants and the big cats but actually little creatures and insects and reptiles and amphibians are facing the same challenges that we do and i really like to try and convey that so that was the challenge of that sequence just to try and make our audience engage with that character

Filming the Kung Fu...

 important one of the main reasons is that it shows us that animal fluorescence is way more widespread than we previously thought we've known that birds for instance use fluorescence there have been recent discoveries that reptiles use fluorescence that fish use

This Platypus Can Glow...

 We learn plants and bacteria are primitive things, and fish give rise to amphibians followed by reptiles and mammals, and then you get you, this perfectly evolved creature at the end of the line. But life doesn't evolve in a line,

Four billion years of...

 Within a short time span, three-quarters of the world's species disappeared forever, and the giant dinosaurs, flying pterosaurs, shelled squids, and marine reptiles that had flourished for ages faded into prehistory.

When will the next mass...

 but if you're cold-blooded you rely on a daily dose of sun to warm up your insides so reptiles and insects generally fare better in the cold when they're small some species though just can't help but defy convention

The Insect That Freezes...

 There's millions and millions and millions of videos of reptiles doing so many different things, whether they're being dressed up or being made to bite or put in funny positions. This is a huge world.

The Reality Behind...

 Extreme temperatures were common and fierce storms made life unpredictable. Dinosaurs flourished on land, pterosaurs roamed the skies, and giant marine reptiles and sharks swam in warm seas.

The ferocious predatory...

 But science tells a story of real-life monsters lurking in Earth's prehistoric seas, monsters called plesiosaurs. Plesiosaurs were ancient marine reptiles

Plesiosaurs 101 PIPE...

 kilometers of Arctic sea ice has disappeared the world human population has doubled while that of our wild mammals amphibians reptiles and fish has halved

Rediscovering ourselves...

 it is in numbers the greatest gathering of reptiles in the world our fear of snakes is really a fear of