How Well Do You Know Reptiles?

  1. Which predator spends 95% of its life motionless?
  2. Which reptile buzzes and blows bubbles to find a mate.
  3. Which reptile creates bubbles on its forehead to breathe underwater?
  4. In 2024, which ‘milked’ snake delivered enough venom to kill 400 humans
  5. Which ‘male’ reptile had a virgin birth in 2024?
 
Dassie rat said:
  1. Which predator spends 95% of its life motionless?
  2. Which reptile buzzes and blows bubbles to find a mate.
  3. Which reptile creates bubbles on its forehead to breathe underwater?
  4. In 2024, which ‘milked’ snake delivered enough venom to kill 400 humans
  5. Which ‘male’ reptile had a virgin birth in 2024?
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  1. Cantor's Giant Softshell Turtle
  2. Gharial
  3. Water Anole
  4. Coastal Taipan (Cyclone)
  5. Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Ronaldo)
 
Well done, MOG2012.
3. I was thinking of the stream anole, but the water anole has the same ability.
So 5/5. It's your turn to set the questions
 
Here are my questions.
  1. Which reptile, once thought extinct for over 100 years, was rediscovered in 2019?
  2. Which individual made headlines in 2021 for a record-breaking lifespan of over 190 years, becoming the oldest known living terrestrial animal? (include name and species)
  3. Which reptile caused a stir in 2020 when scientists discovered it had bright, glowing bones under UV light?
  4. The largest of its kind, this recently discovered species resembles a creature from the movie Dune.
  5. Nicholas Cage had two albino individuals of this species
 
1. Voeltzkow’s chameleon
2. Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise
3.Chameleon
4. Giant prehistoric worm lizard (Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi) that resembles a sandworm
5. King cobra
 
Dassie rat said:
1. Voeltzkow’s chameleon
2. Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise
3.Chameleon
4. Giant prehistoric worm lizard (Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi) that resembles a sandworm
5. King cobra
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  1. Wrong
  2. Correct
  3. What specific type?
  4. Correct
  5. Correct
So 3.5-ish out of 5 so far. Once you answer correctly the other 2 questions, you are back to asking them
 
I think 1 is an African species of Gecko (not quoting the name as I don’t fancy trying to find 5 questions!)
 
1 Which reptile may have been an ancestral link to pterosaurs?

2 Which reptile had a double row of long scale-like structures, probably formed from flat sheets, running along its back?

3 Which vegetarian crocodile may have resembled an armadillo?

4 Which reptile is nearly only known from its terrible hands?

5 Which reptile may have used its greatly elongated middle finger to dig for insects?
 
  1. Scleromochlus taylori
  2. Longisquama insignis
  3. Simosuchus clarki
  4. Deinocheirus mirificus
  5. Mononykus olecranus
That was quite a lot of extinct reptiles!
 
Sorry, Tetzoo Quizzer. I missed that one. Drepanosaurus has a long digit on its index finger, not its middle finger
 
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