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Reptile Picture Quiz

Guess the common names of the reptiles pictured below.
Some of these are extinct
If you can't get the answer, be more specific. If that doesn't work, be less specific
Quiz by WolfCam
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Last updated: May 3, 2018
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First submittedApril 11, 2018
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Bearded Dragon
Thorny Devil
Sea Turtle
41 Comments
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Level 68
May 3, 2018
the second caveat is a nice touch
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Level 87
Aug 21, 2018
"And if that doesn't work, leave an angry comment that insults the quiz creator's intelligence."
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Level 37
May 3, 2018
Turtle IS FAT
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Level 82
May 3, 2018
The be less specific clue helped me on the turtle. Was it a loggerhead? A green? No, just sea. Also I think, if we're being pedantic, three of these aren't reptiles.
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Level 87
Aug 21, 2018
Man, that mamba does not look very black in that light.
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Level 68
Aug 21, 2018
They're jet black on top, not so much on the under belly.
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Level 57
Aug 21, 2018
They're usually slate grey on top, they're named for their jet black mouths.
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Level 44
Aug 21, 2018
Yes, JMM is correct about this. I've had experience with more than one black mamba, and the best way to identify them is to wait until they are dead and then check if their mouth is black. Because trust me, you don't want to check while it is still alive!
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Level 72
Mar 26, 2019
That sounds like very good advise, but something that I hope I never have the opportunity to check for myself - not terribly fond of snakes since being "chased" by a black racer as a child.
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Level 87
Aug 21, 2018
I know a lot of what we think about dinosaurs has changed since the last time I paid significant attention to them. Are they still technically considered to be reptiles?
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Level 81
Aug 21, 2018
Depends on what classification system you are using. The older (and to most people more intuitive, but also somewhat outdated) Linnaean system classifies animals based on their characteristics, behavior, and sometimes common ancestry. Dinosaurs were thought to be more lizard-like in the past (scaly, slow, cold-blooded) but we now think that much of this characterization was wrong and that dinosaurs in many ways were more similar to large flightless birds.

Phylogenetic classification groups all organisms into nested categories and if one of your ancestors was something, you are also that thing. In phylogenetics an organism can never give birth to something that is not what it is, no matter how many generations pass. So... because dinosaurs evolved from reptiles, dinosaurs are reptiles. Because birds evolved from dinosaurs, birds are dinosaurs. But humans are also technically reptiles with this system, and both birds and humans are technically fish.

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Level 82
Aug 22, 2018
But there's no such thing as a fish.
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Level 56
Aug 23, 2018
That's ridiculous, by your logic everything is a single celled organism because that's where we all originated from.
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Level 64
Aug 2, 2022
He never said it was his logica he just pointed out 2 different systems
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Level 68
Aug 21, 2018
Nice quiz but, the 'Gecko' is a leopard Gecko so I think that should really be accepted (as it's a common pet among reptile owners and so many people know it).
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Level 87
Aug 21, 2018
Did you try reading the quiz instructions?
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Level 64
Aug 2, 2022
He said I think that it should be accapted he never said it should
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Level 64
Aug 21, 2018
pls comodo instead of komodo if possible. and in general, i think the c-k rule makes sense in every or almost every situation.
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Level 75
Aug 21, 2018
No, it doesn't. Comodo is a cyber security company. Komodo is an Indonesian island. They are completely different.
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Level 76
Aug 21, 2018
And I think that throughout Indonesia "c" has a "ch" sound. Is that right?
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Level 71
May 3, 2019
Komodo Dragon is the actual name of the species lol not Comodo Dragon, I think scientific accuracy is better than grammar rules
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Level 77
Aug 21, 2018
Beardies REPRESENT!!
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Level 48
Aug 22, 2018
"moloch" for "thorny moloch"? :-)
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Level 63
Aug 25, 2018
Only missed four so quite please as reptiles are something I don't know a lot about, so leaned something today. Did get all the dinosaurs , thanks to having a small son who is obsessed.
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Level 43
Jan 4, 2019
Accept Green anaconda, because it goes by that name a lot too
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Level 64
Aug 2, 2022
There are other species of anaconda also but the one shown is indeed a green anaconda
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Level 71
May 3, 2019
Sorry to say but dinosaurs weren't reptiles, they are the ancestors of modern birds not reptiles.
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Level 72
Jul 12, 2019
I had mistaken the gecko for a fire salamander. I dont know geckos in those colours. The colours instantly trigered fire salamander in my brain (though yes their builds are dfferent)

Also missed skink, didnt know that word, will look it up what it is in my language and if I know it then.. and I forgot stegosarus... Which I do know, but it has been quite some time since I looked at dinosaaurs.

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Level 72
Jul 12, 2019
For skink I was actually thinking hazelworm, which is slowworm or blindworm in english, look quite similar, though one of them has feet haha (usually, not always though..)
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Level 78
Jul 26, 2019
I would have gotten the Black Mamba if a picture of Uma Thurman had been shown.
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Level 79
Mar 17, 2021
I want to KICK myself for forgetting rattlesnake.
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Level 52
Dec 8, 2021
Accept leopard gecko, too, please!
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Level 64
Aug 2, 2022
Why are some of them species and some of them whole group with lots of species in that group? Also dinosaurus could be considered birds
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Level 82
Feb 4, 2023
I was beating my head against the wall trying to figure out why "chamelion" wasn't working. I ended up googling chamelion to see if I was just going crazy and realized it's spelled chameleon. Feel like that could have been put into the accepted misspellings.
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Level 68
Feb 23, 2023
Dinosaurs are not reptiles
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Level 67
Aug 5, 2024
citation needed
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Level 68
May 22, 2023
What features are used to identify an anaconda?

I got it by guessing common snake names (the movie Anaconda).

I googled "spot snake", but the spotted house snake takes top billing.

It looks like it may have smooth scales/live near water. And is large/girthy/probably a constrictor.

I guess people would be familiar with the large constrictors. And know that a python looks more like a rattlesnake pattern. But a boa looks like a python too.

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Level 57
Jun 7, 2024
i knew thorny devil but translator made it as "terrible juggernaut" lol
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Level 67
Oct 9, 2024
"rex" in T. rex shouldn't be capitalized.
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Level 17
Oct 18, 2024
Gilla Monster? Nope. Beaded Lizard? Nope. Still searching.
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Level 17
Oct 18, 2024
Found it! My dumb spelling lol.