• Why are modern reptiles sometimes called ‘living fossils’?
  All the reptiles alive today are very similar to those that lived in ...

• Why are some cats and butterflies called tortoiseshells?
  They get their name because of their colors. The underside of the ...

• What did the dinosaurs eat?
  The dinosaurs are the best known prehistoric animals. Tyrannosaurus, ...

• Which creature lives in a box?
  The box turtle is a small tortoise, with a hinged shell. When it is ...

• How do dinosaurs get their names?
  Names like Tyrannosaurus, which we use today, were given by the ...

• Which mother carries its babies in its fearsome mouth?
  Mother crocodiles help their young by breaking away the hard cap of ...

• How can we tell what dinosaurs ate?
  Teeth are always the clue to what an animal eats. Slicing daggers, ...

• What does a baby crocodile eat?
  After it has finished eating the yolk from its egg, the baby ...

• Which was the first dinosaur to be discovered?
  It is likely that ancient people sometimes found the bones of ...

• How do reptiles regulate their temperature?
  They manage to keep at the best temperature, for their needs, by ...