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Lizards have scales, which are a specialized type of skin.
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∙ 12y agoSnakes arent mammals and mammals have fur or hair, snakes are reptiles so that's why they have scales and not fur or hair.
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∙ 13y agoYesthey do have scales but not skin
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Which creatures are usually covered with scales?
Reptiles, such as snakes and lizards, are covered with scales. Many types of fish have hard scales covering their skin.
What animals have shiny smooth skin?
Snakes, Lizards, crocodiles, and turtles have dry, scaly skin. These cold blooded creatures belong to a family of animals claled reptiles. There are about 6,000 types of reptile.
What outer covering does a lizard have?
The lizards body is covered with scales. It is a reptile.
What is the body covering of a reptiles?
Reptile skin is covered with scutes or scales which, along with many other characteristics, distinguish reptiles from animals of other classes (except fish). Scales are made of keratin and are formed from the epidermis . They may be ossified or tubercular, as in the case of lizards, or modified elaborately, as in the case of snakes.
Is snake catogaries into which class?
Snakes are cold blooded, have dry, waterproof skin, lay eggs (with just a few exceptions) and are covered in scales. These are the traits for reptiles, and that is where they are classified. Their closest relatives are lizards, as both lizards and snakes belong to the order Squamata.
Do lizards have dry scales on their skin?
yes they have dry scales
Does a skink have feathers scales or fur?
Skinks do not have any of those. They have scaly skin, which is quite different to scales. All snakes and lizards have scaly skin.
Which creatures are usually covered with scales?
Reptiles, such as snakes and lizards, are covered with scales. Many types of fish have hard scales covering their skin.
Who are cold blooded animals with tough dry skin scales who are cold blooded animals with tough dry skin scales?
lizards and snakes fit the description
Why do 'blue tongue lizards' shed their skin?
blue tongue lizards shed their skin because their scales don't grow so as they grow if they didn't shed skin their skin would just tear.
What body covering does a goanna have?
Goannas are lizards and, like all lizards and other reptiles, they have a body covering of scaly skin. They do not actually have scales.
What animals have shiny smooth skin?
Snakes, Lizards, crocodiles, and turtles have dry, scaly skin. These cold blooded creatures belong to a family of animals claled reptiles. There are about 6,000 types of reptile.
Do geckos have scales?
most reptiles, including birds, have scales. It is entirely possible that there are some specializations in lizards and other reptiles where they change to have another body covering, but I haven’t seen any like that. However, I am not a naturalist, or a biologist, or a paleontologist(yet), so I can’t be sure.
Does monitor lizard have scales?
Yes. Monitor lizards, like all other lizards, have scales.
Are dinosuars even lizards?
Yes. Dinosaurs are lizards because the only kind of animals on earth with scales are lizards and dinosaurs have scales.
What are lizards covered with?
Scales
Named any scaleless lizard?
All lizards have scales. There aren't any scaleless lizards. There are lizards that dont have true scales but all lizards have scales some lizards that are like that are leopard geckos, fat tail geckos, and certain morphs of bearded draons called silkies
