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Evolutionary History of Reptiles on the Face of Earth

Reptiles had a very interesting history because they developed millions of years ago, and the Earth’s atmosphere was not friendly towards evolutionary needs of the life. The animals grew hardcore physiology in order to withstand toughest survival needs that an organism can face during its lifetime (Kobolkuti, Cadar and Czirjak, 3). The featured organisms have scaled body structure, and therefore, they have the ability and power to survive in the impossible environmental conditions that the planet has to offer. However, they follow natural breeding process that involves laying of eggs with hard shells. The reptiles are dying away in their natural form, and they have to develop mammalian physical tendencies in order to ensure their long term survival in the changing environmental outlook of the globe. However, researchers can find reptiles in the jungles of Africa because the area is having a relatively preserved naturalistic environment that is rather ideal for the reptilian developmental needs (Goodland, 13), and therefore, the organisms are thriving partially in the featured geographical location. Some of them grew as apex predators because they could not follow their natural lifecycle. Additionally, the reptilian biological base provided natural groundwork that led to the development of dinosaurs, and mosasaurs as well.
Reptilians have evolved from water based life forms that had an amphibian nature, and when oceans’ capacity depleted in terms of resources that organisms need to survive, then the built-in process of evolution kicked in, and because of this reason, the early amphibians developed into initial breed of reptilians. With the passage of time, many reptilians died out because they had to adapt to newer living conditions, they had grown scales on their bodies in order to provide safety to underlying soft amphibian skin, and one can still find the soft tissue by removing the outer epidermal tissue.
The early development of reptilians took place more than three hundred million years ago, and these evolutionary events happened in the dying years of Carboniferous era. The reptiles had have advanced digestive systems, and they had to grow legs, advanced neurology so that their survival can be enhanced. The reproductive system of reptilians responded to the challenge of protecting the next generation, and therefore, their eggs’ structure changed in order to have solid outer shells because they had to protect the developing infant inside the natural incubator from environmental strain. The reptiles did not develop upright appearance and they did not have grasping hands so they are not moving in the direction of attaining higher biological status in the natural tree of evolutionary process (Kobolkuti, Cadar and Czirjak, 4). Furthermore, one can see that reptiles will eventually develop higher brain functions and intellectual centers in their brains, but the growth process will take millions of years into the future. The reptilians are being environmentally killed because of atmosphere that is putting new challenges in front of the featured organisms.
The humans have killed the most of reptilians indirectly due to industrial revolution, the reptilians felt the environmental pressures that did not allow the organisms to maintain coldness of their blood, and their physical systems evolved in order to manage the environmental challenges (Lemos, Fischer and Souza, 8). Negative development regarding prevalence of natural ecological stature provided the foundation for evolutionary process of reptilians that helped them in attainment of mammalian biological factors.

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