Reptiles are a group (Reptilia) of tetrapod animals comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile groups, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology. Birds are also often included as a sub-group of reptiles by modern scientists.
The earliest known proto-reptiles originated around 312 million years ago during the Carboniferous period, having evolved from advanced reptiliomorph tetrapods that became increasingly adapted to life on dry land. Some early examples include the lizard-like Hylonomus and Casineria. In addition to the living reptiles, there are many diverse groups that are now extinct, in some cases due to mass extinction events. In particular, the K–Pg extinction wiped out the pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, ornithischians, and sauropods, as well as many species of theropods (e.g. tyrannosaurids and dromaeosaurids), crocodyliforms, and squamates (e.g. mosasaurids).
Reptilia is Canada's largest indoor reptile zoo, with 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2) of indoor exhibits featuring over 250 reptiles, amphibians and arachnids. It is located in in Vaughan, Ontario.
Reptilia is the home of Canada's largest crocodiles, Induna, who is 14 feet (4.3 m) long, and weighs over 1,000 pounds (450 kg). The zoo also contains a 14-foot-long (4.3 m) king cobra, 20-foot-long (6.1 m) pythons, poison dart frogs, rattlesnakes, and more.
Reptilia provides curriculum compliant educational programs from kindergarten to grade 12 along with specialized post secondary programs for first responders, educators, animal control officers and veterinarians. Educational programs are provided at Reptilia, as well as through the transportation of reptiles to various schools to provide curriculum compliant lessons in school classrooms. Lessons are typically of 1 hour duration.
Reptilia interacts closely with other educational organizations, supplying reptiles and other supplies to the Ontario Science Centre, helping the Toronto Zoo with their educational programs, and working with many of the schools in the Greater Toronto Area. Reptilia also has a number of classrooms and party rooms that can be rented out for activities such as birthday parties. Each room is named after a different reptile.
Reptilia is a Japanese horror manga written and illustrated by Kazuo Umezu. The manga, titled Hebishōjo (へび少女?, "Snake Girl") in the original Japanese, is a series of three stories involving a shapeshifting snake-woman who haunts a Japanese village. It was originally published in 1966 by Kadokawa Shoten.
Hebishōjo was published in English under the title Reptilia by IDW Publishing in 2007.
Ken Haley from Pop Culture Shock qualified the story as "simplistic", and he said it follows a formula since in the first two chapters Yumiko is always running away from the Snake Lady. Haley commented that Reptilia reminded him of "a classic Universal horror flick", adding that he did not want to put it on the same level as Lugosi's Dracula, or Karloff's Frankenstein but saying that it might appeal to the fans of monster flicks. He also stated that the manga is "nothing like most of the horror series [...] on the market" at the time. Joseph Luster of Otaku USA praised IDW's "fine presentation" of the book and the newly designed cover by Ashley Wood. Luster commented on the manga: "Per usual, one should expect a lot of raging delirium and paranoia from this Kaz[uo Umezu] story. The freakout moments, presented via gruesome splashes immediately after a slow turn of the page, are rendered with Umezu's typical attention to all the nasty details. Curled and wrinkled snake lips give way to venomous teeth that are ready to jump out at the reader, with the next page reverting to his eerily cute style that somehow makes horror that much more horrifying."
He seemed impressed by the way you came in.
'Tell us a story
I know you're not boring'
I was afraid that you would not insist.
'You sound so sleepy
just take this, now leave me'
I said please don't slow me down
If I'm going too fast
You're in a strange part of our town...
Yeah, the night's not over
You're not trying hard enough,
Our lives are changing lanes
You ran me off the road,
The wait is over
I'm now taking over,
You're no longer laughing
I'm not drowning fast enough.
Now every time that I look at myself
'I thought I told you
this world is not for you'
The room is on fire as she's fixing her hair
'you sound so angry
just calm down, you found me'
I said please don't slow me down
If I'm going too fast
You're in a strange part of our town...
Yeah, the night's not over
You're not trying hard enough,
Our lives are changing lanes
You ran me off the road,
The wait is over
I'm now taking over,
You're no longer laughing
I'm not drowning fast enough.