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What special type of egg do reptiles have?
Reptile eggs are soft-shelled so that the babies can break out of the shells. Bird eggs are hard-shelled, because baby birds use their beaks to crack the shells of their eggs, but since reptiles don't have beaks to use to break their shells, their eggs have to be soft-shelled.
What types of eggs do reptiles lay?
Reptile eggs are soft-shelled - as opposed to the calcified shell of a birds egg.
How is reptiles offspring produced?
They lay eggs on land and have a leathery egg shell, then a few months later the baby is born.
Why reptiles lay soft shelled eggs on land?
Reptiles and birds produce eggs that are self-contained so far as liquids are concerned. They have hard or leathery shells that are mostly impermeable to water (although they cannot survive for long if submerged). The shells of amphibians are permeable, and must be in water at least part of the time or they will dry out, causing the embryo to die from dehydration.
Does reptiles lay eggs or have young?
no,some either lay eggs or give birth to live young
What special type of egg do reptiles have?
Reptile eggs are soft-shelled so that the babies can break out of the shells. Bird eggs are hard-shelled, because baby birds use their beaks to crack the shells of their eggs, but since reptiles don't have beaks to use to break their shells, their eggs have to be soft-shelled.
Are platypus eggs hard or squishy?
Platypus eggs are not hard-shelled, like birds' eggs. They are soft-shelled and leathery.
Is a bird's egg leathery?
No, they are usually hard-shelled. Snakes eggs are leathery.
What type of egg would a desert animal lay?
Birds lay normal, hard-shelled eggs while reptiles usually lay eggs with a leathery shell that is flexible.
What is an egg shell of an animal?
Monotremes are egg-laying mammals, and their eggs are not hard-shelled, but leathery. The monotremes include the platypus and echidna.Reptiles also lay rubbery/leathery eggs.
Reptiles are much more extensively adapted to life on land than amphibians in that reptiles?
lay shelled eggs
What is a hard shelled reptiles that lives only on land?
tortiose
What types of eggs do reptiles lay?
Reptile eggs are soft-shelled - as opposed to the calcified shell of a birds egg.
Are platypus eggs soft or hard?
Platypus eggs are soft and leathery, rather than hard-shelled.
Do fish lay eggs hard shelled?
No, their eggs are soft. Caviar is fish eggs.
How did the hard shelled egg help reptiles adapt to life on land?
to protect them from pridators
What type of eggs do fresh water crocodiles lay?
They Lay hard shelled eggs.
