Reptiles are a diverse animal classification group of scaly, cold-blooded vertebrates that can be found in habitats all ...

Mammals and birds have dramatically more neurons in their forebrain and cerebellum than reptiles, and neuron numbers have scaled up significantly only four times in more than 300 million years of ...

THREATS: Habitat loss and fragmentation, flood-control activities, changes in agricultural and land-management practices such as conversion of rice fields, predation from introduced species, ...

RANGE: Coastal San Mateo County from Lake Merced south along the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains to Point Año Nuevo and along San Mateo County baylands THREATS: Urban development, wetland ...