What is the Difference between a reptile and a lizard?

Answer 1

snakes: no legs, no visible ear, slow metabolism, sometimes constrict prey

lizards: legs, visible ear, faster metabolism, teeth, no fangs

There are no differences, a snake is a reptile. Reptile is the family and snake is the genus.

Answer 2

A reptile is a broad category of animals that includes snakes, turtles, crocodiles, and lizards. Lizards are a specific subgroup of reptiles characterized by having scaly skin, four legs, and a tail. So, all lizards are reptiles, but not all reptiles are lizards.

Answer 3

Dinosaurs are different from lizards in many ways. First off, dinosaurs walk with their legs underneath them, like an elephant or horse. Dinosaurs are also considerably larger than most lizards, but lizards and crocodiles have much larger relatives that lived during the time of the dinosaurs, even finding some dinosaurs as a food source! Lizards are cold blooded, while dinosaurs are considered to be warm blooded.

Answer 4

They belong to different (though related) phylogenetic clades. The most obvious differences are that dinosaurs were ancestrally bipedal (they walked on two legs), although some later became quadrupedal (walking on four legs). All lizards are quadrupedal ancestrally, though some can move on two legs for a short while. Other differences are metabolism - all lizards are cold blooded, while at least some dinosaurs certainly were (and are, since birds are dinosaurs) warm blooded. There are plenty of other differences, but these are the most glaring.

Answer 5

There is no difference, a lizard is a subgroup of the reptiles, just as snakes are another reptilian subgroup.

Answer 6

if i may say the differences and similarities between frogs and lizards are that frog are much shorter than the lizard (differences) and they do both eat flies

Answer 7

there different because lizards have scales and ther reptiles,salamanders are amphibans like frogs.

Answer 8

a turtle swims but a lizard cant whereas a turtle has a shell but a lizard doesn't have

Answer 9

the position of the legs on their bodies

Answer 10

alligators live longer than lizards.