Birds
Includes pheasants, grouse, and turkeys
What are game birds?
Longest venomous snake
What is the king cobra?
Venomous snake with long fangs that fold against the roof of the mouth when not in use.
What is a viperid?
British naturalist primarily responsible for popularizing the idea that all life evolved from a common ancestor.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Father of Anatomy.
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
Includes ducks, geese, herons, and storks
What are water birds?
Largest living turtle
What is the sea turtle?
Venomous snake with immovable fangs in the front of the upper jaw.
What is an elapid?
Belief that living things can arise from nonliving things.
What is spontaneous generation?
Heat-sensitive organ that allows some viperids to "see" warm objects in absolute darkness.
What is a pit organ?
Includes eagles, hawks, falcons, and vultures
What are birds of prey?
Ant-eating mammal that is covered with protective plates made of fused hair bundles.
What is a pangolin?
Group of snakes that includes boas, anacondas, and pythons.
What is a boid?
Which fully human "human ancestor" was named after the cave where the fossils were first found?
What is Cro-Magnon man?
Region of an egg yolk where the embryo develops.
What is the germinal spot?
Includes ostriches emus, and kiwis
What are flightless birds?
Largest living amphibian
What is the Chinese giant salamander?
Makes up over 2/3 of all snakes.
What is a colubrid?
Principle that animals or plants well suited to their environment are more likely to survive than organisms poorly suited to their environment.
What is natural selection?
Number of chambers in an amphibian's heart.
What is 3?
Includes songbirds
What are perching birds?
Rare lizardlike reptiles found only in New Zealand and surrounding islands.
What is a tuatara?
Snake locomotion in which a snake moves the front part of its body forward, coils it slightly to anchor it, and then pulls the back part forward.
Sudden outburst of living things of great variety in the fossil record, showing no evidence of evolution.
What is the Cambrian explosion?
Pigment cells in the skin of an amphibian.
What are chromatophores?