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Q: Why were tough skin and amnionic eggs so important go reptiles?
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What are the tough leatherly eggs of reptiles and birds called?

amnionic eggs


What are the tough leathery eggs of reptile and birds are called?

amnionic eggs


Why were tough skin and amnion eggs so important to reptiles?

They allowed them to move away from water.


What evolutionary innovation is associated with reptiles?

An evolutionary innovation associated with amphibians is their heart, which can exchange gases outside of a water environment. This allows the amphibians to live on land.


What make reptiles distinctive?

Reptiles are cold blooded (cannot regulate body temperature) animals. Reptiles are vertebrates (with a backbone). Their bodies are covered with scales or scutes. They lay eggs. Reptiles skin is tough, rough and scaly.


Do reptiles birth from eggs or womb?

Most reptiles lay eggs.


Do Fish and reptiles lay eggs?

fish and reptiles lay eggs


Are snake reptiles?

Snakes are reptiles because they are cold-blooded, have tough skin or scales, and usually lay eggs with an amniotic sac. So are lizards, turtles and crocodilians are as well.


Do reptiles lay eggs for their babies?

reptiles lay eggs, if thats what you mean


How do the eggs of birds and reptiles differ?

A reptile egg is much much much softer than birds egg.


How many species of snakes lay eggs?

Snakes are reptiles, and all reptiles lay eggs. That is a basic characteristic of reptiles.


Do reptiles lay eggs or born alive?

Eggs. Reptiles are cold blooded and NOT mammals.