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  2. Ichthyosauria - Wikipedia

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    Although they were reptiles and descended from egg-laying, oviparous, ancestors, viviparity is not as unexpected as it first appears. Air-breathing marine creatures must either come ashore to lay eggs , like turtles and some sea snakes , or else give birth to live young in surface waters, like whales and dolphins.

  3. Marine reptile - Wikipedia

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    Sea snake (bottom right) Marine reptiles are reptiles which have become secondarily adapted for an aquatic or semiaquatic life in a marine environment. Only about 100 of the 12,000 extant reptile species and subspecies are classed as marine reptiles, including marine iguanas, sea snakes, sea turtles and saltwater crocodiles. [1]

  4. Evolution of reptiles - Wikipedia

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    A = Anapsid, B = Synapsid, C = Diapsid. It was traditionally assumed that first reptiles were anapsids, having a solid skull with holes only for the nose, eyes, spinal cord, etc.; [10] the discoveries of synapsid-like openings in the skull roof of the skulls of several members of Parareptilia, including lanthanosuchoids, millerettids, bolosaurids, some nycteroleterids, some procolophonoids and ...

  5. Secondarily aquatic tetrapods - Wikipedia

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    Mosasaurs became extinct 66 million years ago, at the same time as the dinosaurs. A modern semi-aquatic lizard: the marine iguana. Modern squamates which have made their own adaptions to allow them to spend significant time in the ocean include marine iguanas and sea snakes. Sea snakes are extensively adapted to the marine environment, giving ...

  6. List of marine reptiles - Wikipedia

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    Disteira major (Olive-headed or greater sea snake) Disteira nigrocincta Disteira walli (Wall's sea snake) Enhydrina schistosa (Beaked sea snake, hook-nosed sea snake, common sea snake, Valakadyn sea snake) Enhydrina zweifeli (Sepik or Zweifel’s beaked seasnake) Hydrophis; Hydrophis belcheri (Faint-banded sea snake, Belcher's sea snake)

  7. Tiny rainforest lizards leap into water and don’t come up ...

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    The goal of DEEP, a UK-based ocean technology company, is to build interconnected modules that would allow people to live and work at a depth of 656 feet (200 meters) for up to a month.

  8. Sauropsida - Wikipedia

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    Sauropsida (Greek for "lizard faces") is a clade of amniotes, broadly equivalent to the class Reptilia, though typically used in a broader sense to also include extinct stem-group relatives of modern reptiles and birds (which, as theropod dinosaurs, are nested within reptiles as more closely related to crocodilians than to lizards or turtles). [2]

  9. Sauria - Wikipedia

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    Sauria was historically used as a partial equivalent for Squamata (which contains lizards and snakes). [5] The redefinition to cover the last common ancestor of archosaurs and lepidosaurs was the result of papers by Jacques A. Gauthier and colleagues in the 1980s.