The world's saurians nodded their heads and knew in their large-chambered hearts that there was no going back.
"Nevertheless," a few continued to insist, "we are not like the great saurians at all!
A stout, grandmotherly woman in her fifties, Okech constituted a fine example of what could be called an "upper-middle-class"
Saurian; this meant she had enough money to construct a concrete-walled and tin-roofed house, and she was able to regularly hire workers to farm her land.
Saurians such as Bothrops ammodytoides and Homonota darwinii are also very common.
"There are hundreds of
saurians buried in the savanna mud," Alexander von Humboldt wrote in 1800, but today the Orinoco crocodile is one of the region's most endangered species.
In living limbed
saurians such as crocodilians, lizards, and the tuatara, the tail serves another important role during locomotion.
Though the immense
saurians and many of their neighbors disappeared from the planet 65 million years ago, scientists never tire of dreaming up ways to kill off the beasts.
But in some loopy way, it's always the wrong animals: reptiles, particularly
saurians (perhaps because he himself has a cousinly amphibian empathy).
dixoni is similar to other species of Cnemidophorus in having an unusually high mean CB temperature compared with many
saurians in other families (see summary of papers in Schall, 1976 [Table 15]; Walker et al., 1991).
McKibben admiringly quotes the naturalist John Muir writing of the alligator, "Honorable representatives of the great
saurians of older creation, may you long enjoy your lilies and rushes, and be blessed now and then with a mouthful of terror-stricken man by way of dainty!" Thinking that man should avoid slaughtering alligators or destroying their habitats is one thing; thinking that it is an amusing act of justice that a "terror-stricken" person--in practice, usually a small child--occasionally gets ripped to shreds by one of these predators is quite another.
Several snakes make a hiss as a warning signal, as do the only poisonous
saurians, the Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) and the Mexican Gila monster or beaded lizard (H.
The most frequent
saurians are the iguanas Uta stansburiana, Cophosaurus texanus, Cnemidophorus tigris, and Sceloporus undulatus.
Some closely related species of
saurians such as Eremias grammica, E.
Apart from the unusual case of the pollination of Dactylanthus taylorii by a walking bat, Mystacina tuberculata, some New Zealand flowers are pollinated by
saurians; this is unknown elsewhere in the world, except for the island of Cabrera in the Balearic Islands, almost exactly on the other side of the world from New Zealand, where the endemic lizard Podarcis lilfordi pollinates some plants.
Owen, R., (1858): Description of the skull and teeth of the Placodus laticeps, Owen, with indications of other new species of Placodus, and Evidence of the
Saurian nature of that genus.
