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A herpetarium (herpeton = reptile, creeping thing) is an enclosure housing amphibians or reptiles. A serpentarium is a herpetarium for snakes. An insectarium is an enclosure for housing insects. When used to refer to a facility, it often refers to a facility that houses both insects and other invertebrates.
The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) is also among the largest iguanas in the world, [78] and the largest reptile on Galapagos Islands after the Galapagos land iguana, not including turtles reaching a maximum total length of 1.4 m (4.59 ft), a SVL of from 12 till 56 cm (from 4.72 till 22 in) [82] [83] and a mass of from 1 to 12 kg (2.2 ...
The spiny-tailed monitor [2] (Varanus acanthurus), also known as the Australian spiny-tailed monitor, the ridge-tailed monitor [3] the Ackie dwarf monitor, and colloquially simply ackie monitor, [4] is an Australian species of lizard belonging to the genus of monitor lizards (Varanus).
Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago.Opened on May 30, 1930, the 5 million US gal (19,000,000 L; 4,200,000 imp gal) aquarium holds about 32,000 animals and is the third largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, after the Georgia Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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Most marine reptile groups became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, but some still existed during the Cenozoic, most importantly the sea turtles. Other Cenozoic marine reptiles included the bothremydids, [4] palaeophiid snakes, a few choristoderes such as Simoedosaurus and dyrosaurid crocodylomorphs.