A snake is an animal that belongs to a group of animals called reptiles, but there are four main groups of reptiles: turtles and tortoises, lizards and snakes, crocodiles and alligators, and the tuatara. Reptiles have lived on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. The earliest known reptiles originated about 340 million years ago.

Snakes are reptiles. To be specific, they are classified as part of kingdom Animalia; phylum Chordata; and class Reptilia. There are several orders, family, genus, and species of snakes. Reptiles also include crocodiles, turtles, and lizards.

Yes, a snake is a reptile. It is not an amphibian because amphibians have smooth, scaleless skin which is how they obtain water, but most importantly snakes use …

SNAKES ARE REPTILES © Contributed by Leanne Guenther. Snakes belong to the animal class reptiles. This group also includes crocodiles, lizards, and turtles. Reptiles are cold-blooded animals that raise their body temperature by lying in the sun or lower it by crawling into the shade. Their body temperature changes to the temperature of its surroundings.

Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes / s ɜːr ˈ p ɛ n t iː z /. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in …

A snake is a reptile with a long, thin body but no legs. Some lizards are legless and look like snakes, however, most lizards have eyelids, and snakes do not. All snakes eat live prey, which is grabbed and swallowed whole without chewing it into pieces.

Frogs are amphibians. They spend time on land, but in their larval stage, as tadpoles, they live in water. Snakes, on the other hand, are reptiles. Some snakes, like the northern water snake, live in water, but not all snakes do. In fact, many snake species live in desert climates. The function of the skin is also different in reptiles and amphibians.

Reptiles, as most commonly defined, are the animals in the class Reptilia (/ r ɛ p ˈ t ɪ l i ə /), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all amniotes except synapsids (mammals and their extinct relatives) and Aves (). Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards & snakes) and rhynchocephalians ().In the traditional Linnaean classification system, birds are …