reptiles .
Reptiles have a fear response.
The reptile one?
little reptiles that we call dinosauromorphs, which were no bigger than a cat, than a pet cat that we might have.
of reptiles that could fly, but they were not dinosaurs.
It's our state reptile , and it's an interesting and cool species.
It was the reptile part of her brain that was grabbing and chewing and swallowing.
were some small little reptiles that had long arms and legs that could move fast, that were agile, that were smart, and is in those reptiles that we find the roots of the dinosaur family tree.
No marine reptiles , no marine mammals.
There were no reptiles around.
point out parenthetically that reptiles do have uh nucleuses in their red blood cells mammals are unique and not having
Because we just seem so different from reptiles .
It is the study of reptiles and amphibians.
So we can find cancers in reptiles , in amphibians, in birds, in bats.
And I was especially interested in the reptiles that lived there, because they were just so fascinating.
They're often called mammal-like reptiles because they were reptiles that over time began to evolve more and more mammal-like features
They wouldn't have been green or brown like some big reptile .
I'm probably some kind of weird dinosaur or reptile I would write off.
And a lot of it is coming from that little reptile brain inside of us that's trying to protect us from things,
And I think that is what makes-- it's my reptile brain connected to theirs, and together, we're creating the story.
nucleuses so there's lots of DNA in reptile blood uh that they would clone this would be a self-directed process somebody would choose to do this but the
For example, reptiles and fish approach and avoid, they don't attach, right?
And then you make that leap from mammal to bird or bird to reptile .
So it's interesting, it's still a reptile , but it's on the line that would eventually become mammals.
And I admit, I'm no reptile expert, but I'm pretty sure snakes do not like having their tongues grabbed like that.
So, if you are close to a reptile and you make a sudden noise or a sudden movement, the reptile has something
And it turns out that the same pretty primitive brain system that we share with reptiles and most other animals
I'm not talking about the details of their biology-- whether they look like reptiles , whether they have nine fingers on each hand, what kind of sex they have.
One is a part of the brain that has existed since we broke away from reptiles .
by and large, are more intelligent than the reptiles .
miles try to get a bird from the first 10 miles a mammal from the second a reptile from the third so there are
They were the top predators in the southern oceans after the ocean reptiles went extinct with the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous.
That the food webs that support our animals-- the amphibians, the reptiles , the birds, the mammals, even our freshwater fishes-- those food buds would collapse and those animals
Mammals, birds, reptiles , amphibians, invertebrates-- leave out all insects, because they're
And it also took out a lot of other incredible life, these giant marine reptiles in the ocean, these giant reef building clams that were really strange,
But fish survived, amphibians, reptiles , one of our relatives
There were climbing and flying insects, and there were also increasing numbers of amphibians and reptiles .
the common ancestor of modern salamanders and frogs, and of all the other reptiles , and mammals and birds.
right, dinosaurs gone, big reptiles gone.
People have talked about this little sort of weaselly looking thing called Thrinaxodon that was this proto-mammalian reptile that might have--
So I'd like you to talk a little bit about connecting with readers on that level of language, that kind of reptile
The inner reptile brain and there's the squirrel monkey brain
But if you plot the data for a larger range of mammals, as well as for other animals like birds, reptiles , and fish,
All the reptiles living in the oceans died.
Turn from that to natural creatures, insects, animals of various sorts, reptiles , amphibians.
But we find it much harder to recognize that, actually, we also share our DNA with reptiles .
So 30,000 fish, but also 30,000 mammals, amphibians, birds, reptiles , all put together.
All the way up to an elephant or a rhino and everything you can think of in between for birds, mammals and reptiles .
And they're really important with the ecosystem because they eat a lot of different bugs, small rodents, and small reptiles .
He's worked in the fields of research biology, where he focused on aquaculture, agricultural biology and herpetology, which is the study of reptiles