Essays Tagged: "Lizard"

The Komodo Dragon

ed by the occasional pearl diver or sea turtle hunter. Suddenly reports began to surface of a giant lizard measuring twelve feet long. In 1910 Major P.A. Owens became annoyed with the reportsand decid ... ecame annoyed with the reportsand decided to find out for himself. What he found was indeed a giant lizard. In fact it was a newely discovered species. The giant lizard was forgotten until 1923 due to ...

(5 pages) 38 0 5.0 May/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Our first Corroboree.

d, violet, orange and red but never green. The white, fluffy numbus clouds dance high in the sky. A lizard was lounging in the sun, too warm to think of chasing dinner. Bones of dead animals told us t ...

(5 pages) 41 0 3.5 May/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

Everything you need to know about worms and perhaps some you didn't.

ome insects, for example, or even to some vertebrates, such as the blindworm, a limbless, snakelike lizard. However, the name is properly applied only to certain adult invertebrates.Worms play a major ...

(6 pages) 45 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

This esssay is about living life to the fulles or a life philosophy

Living Life to the FullestLiving life is like a lizard, always changing its colors with its environment. Living life everyday to the fullest is one ...

(3 pages) 115 0 3.2 Jan/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

"The Roof Prowler"

oof. I thought it was a cat, so I went outside to see it. As I got closer it started to look like a lizard, so I continued to slowly walk toward it. I was almost there when my mom made me go inside to ...

(1 pages) 17 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

More Than a Prize

do not enjoy having their pet die.A successful pitch of a baseball wins you a green anole, a small lizard that requires specific needs. You're handed your prize in nothing more than a cardboard box. ... n asked if we can take the animal in. People just don't understand how much attention even a little lizard can require. Other times, people will call wondering why their goldfish died. I explain every ...

(2 pages) 27 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Collection of Original Poems...

ts, and arts, and destroys them both.DishesI stole the fire from the match,And the cricket from the lizard.I took the wonder from your lips,And grabbed the cold from the blizzard.I look for youIn the ...

(2 pages) 24 0 0.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Creation or Evolution: Evidence of the Fossil Record

becoming more and more complex with each species. The theory of evolution goes from fish to frog to lizard, and then to birds and hairy animals, and finally to human beings. It tells of how a simpler ... ife that were complex right from the beginning. God created fish to be fish, frogs to be frogs, and lizards to be lizards. After the creation of the world was completed, God created Adam, a man in His ...

(6 pages) 53 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: Science Essays

Edmontosaurus

ate Cretaceous period, about sixty-five million years ago. Actually, Edmontosaurous means "Edmonton Lizard", named from the Canadian Edmonton rock formation in Alberta. This dinosaur was named in 1917 ...

(1 pages) 11 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

Discuss the theme of loneliness and isolation in John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"

s nature, mainly animals, to give the feeling of solitude, 'the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them.' (pg 18), 'Rabbits come out of the brush to s ...

(3 pages) 6 0 0.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

Kamodo Dragon

l eating habits. The reason it's body structure interests me is because it is six feet long lizard. It's not everyday you see a six foot long lizard roaming around. It has a split tongue just ... tor since the only predator it has is itself and humans. You might think that a huge, six-foot long lizard that walks on all four feet might be slow, but it's amazingly fast. Like it's look-alike cous ...

(1 pages) 1311 0 3.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Lizard

The novel Lizard is written by Dennis Covington. This is a book about a retarded looking boy and his harsh lif ... ook about a retarded looking boy and his harsh life of people and there first impressions.The novel Lizard is about first impressions that are not right. In the novel, people are always being sneaky, ... t first impressions that are not right. In the novel, people are always being sneaky, for instance, Lizard is looked at differently because of his physical appearance. Lizard is looked at by everyone ...

(1 pages) 1264 0 5.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Science Essays

Recycling

dfill have on our surrounding environment? With all the recent controversy about the desert fringed lizard and bighorn sheep it would only seem logical to make a huge ordeal about this Landfill being ...

(2 pages) 25 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Lizard

The novel Lizard is written by Dennis Covington. This is a book about a retarded looking boy and his harsh lif ... ook about a retarded looking boy and his harsh life of people and there first impressions.The novel Lizard is about first impressions that are not right. In the novel, people are always being sneaky, ... t first impressions that are not right. In the novel, people are always being sneaky, for instance, Lizard is looked at differently because of his physical appearance. Lizard is looked at by everyone ...

(1 pages) 1347 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Science Essays

Bill Haveron Dallas Texas Personal Narrative

ays trying to get him. That he just has “this attraction.” The man loves talking about my lizard suit. To this day I have no clue what the reference is. He told me that he is going to paint ... it. To this day I have no clue what the reference is. He told me that he is going to paint me in my lizard suit, so I guess I will eventually find out. He also likes to say “oh (insert your name ...

(2 pages) 1295 0 1.0 Aug/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

John Steinbeck’s Flight made numerous references to nature. His fate

showing where Pèpe stood in comparison to the other beings of the world, such as snakes and lizards. Pèpe was between the two on the food chain. He killed a lizard, but the snake didn't ...

(2 pages) 4405 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Thorny Devil

name and species nameThe Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus) is also known as the Thorny Dragon, Thorny Lizard, or the Moloch.What are its characteristicsThe thorny devil has many quirky characteristics. ... evils are found throughout out Australia's interior desertCommunityThe thorny devil comes under the lizard/ reptilian communityInteractionThe thorny devil lives in the desert and there aren't many ani ...

(2 pages) 4212 0 1.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

Learning Experience Paper

social learning theory.First of all, I would begin by describing my experience of learning to fear lizards with regards to classical conditioning. To give some context to the situation, I was raised ... gards to classical conditioning. To give some context to the situation, I was raised in India where lizards, usually in large numbers, are often found on walls particularly during the summer months. I ...

(5 pages) 176 0 3.0 May/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Did an asteroid killed the dinosaurs?

ed bones of unknown creatures.Dinosaurs were reptiles and lived on land. Their name means "terrible lizard" and like lizards, many of them had tough, scaly skin. There were hundreds of different kinds ... s (bird-hipped dinosaurs), such as Protocercatops, had hipbones similar to birds: the Saurischians (lizard-hipped dinosaurs), such as Diplodocus, had hipbones similar to lizards.Reference: Children's ...

(12 pages) 0 0 0.0 Apr/2013

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics