This is a replica of the original website for demonstration purposess only.

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Click here for list of Birds
Click here for list of Insects
Click here for list of Mammals
Click here for list of Plants Click here for list of Reptiles

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Reptiles
are cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates. A tough leathery skin that has embedded scales covers their body. Most reptiles lay eggs, though some give birth to fully-formed young.

This group includes:
crocodiles and alligators, turtles, snakes, and lizards and tuatara

Birds
are warm-blooded air-breathing vertebrates. Their body is covered with feathers. Birds have beaks, wings and scale covered legs. All birds lay eggs that are covered with a calcium carbonate shell.

Insects
are cold-blooded invertebrates covered by an exoskeleton. Their body consists of three regions: head, thorax and abdomen. They have antennae and six legs. They make up 75% of all the animal species on earth.

Mammals
are warm-blooded air-breathing vertebrates. Their body is covered with hair. All mammals feed their young milk. Most mammals give birth to miniature versions of themselves.

This group includes:
Monotremes - duckbilled platypus, echidnas, Marsupials - opossums, kangaroos, and Placentals - most other mammals

Plants
are multicellular, nonmobile, photosynthesizing organisms adapted to live on land. They consist of leave and/or stems that capture the sun's energy and an underground root system.

This group includes:
moss and liverworts, ferns, conifers, and flowering plants


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