The Reptile
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| Initial release | United Kingdom |
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| Directors | John Gilling |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Production company | Hammer Film Productions |
| Screenplay | Anthony Hinds |
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| ID | 1177721 |
About The Reptile
A Malayan curse turns the daughter (Jacqueline Pearce) of a 19th-century English doctor (Noel Willman) into a snake woman.
Owner left detailed notes with python dumped in Oxford
... The Reptile was passed on to the RSPCA, which said it was lucky to have survived the cold...
Australian farmer Colin Deveraux survives crocodile attack by biting back
... Mr Deveraux told ABC he first tried kicking the crocodile in the ribs with his other foot - before biting The Reptile back...
Off-course turtle named after Scottish island taken 1,700 miles home
... Mr German, animal care curator at Sea Life Scarborough, said The Reptile was found " in the bleak midwinter, [it] is just incredibly lucky that she was found"...
Birmingham police save 'slippery customer' boa constrictor spotted in road
... Chloe Clarke, team supervisor at The Reptile Centre in Erdington, said as boa constrictors were not native to the UK, The Reptile must have been in captivity...
Three-legged ploughshare tortoise finds new life on rollers
... The Reptile was initially taken to an animal rescue centre in Hong Kong where support rollers were fitted under its lower shell to help it balance...
Pompeii: Ancient pregnant tortoise surprises archaeologists
... Archaeologists found The Reptile s remains buried under ash and rock where it had laid undiscovered since 79 AD...
Flying reptile: Remains of scary prehistoric creature discovered
... Prof Ortiz was one of the palaeontologists who originally discovered The Reptile s fossils during an excavation in Argentina back in 2012...
Blackpool Zoo's 'irreplaceable' giant tortoise dies aged 105
... The zoo said it was " extremely saddened" to announce The Reptile s death after it suffered an incurable leg injury...
Flying reptile: Remains of scary prehistoric creature discovered
Fossilized remains from a giant Flying reptile the size of a bus have been discovered in Argentina.
The Dragon of Death, as scientists have dubbed the new species, hunted Prey from Earth's skies around 86 million years ago.
When fully extended, its wings measured a massive nine metres (30 ft) from one tip to The Other .
The Sheer size of The Predator paints a " terrifying vision" The Scientist behind The Find told The Bbc .
" This species had a height similar to that of a giraffe, " project leader Leonardo Ortiz said, with a wingspan that " defies the limits of our biological understanding".
Its remains had been preserved in rocks in the Andes mountains for 86 million years, which means the Flying creature lived alongside dinosaurs.
Prof Ortiz was one of the palaeontologists who originally discovered The Reptile 's fossils during an excavation in Argentina back in 2012.
He chose the species' name - Thanatosdrakon Amaru - because it combined The Greek words for death and dragon.
" It seemed appropriate to name it that way, " Prof Ortiz said in an earlier interview. " It's The Dragon of death. "
The Reptile is believed to be one of The First predators to use their wings to hunt Prey - Flying through Earth's prehistoric skies before the evolution of birds.
Despite that, Prof Ortiz told The Bbc that this hunter likely spent most of its time on the ground.
Details of the creature's prehistoric lifestyle are scant - But he added that the fact a pair of differently sized specimen were discovered together is evidence that The Predator lived in groups.
The fearsome reptile lived some 20 million years before an asteroid hit The Earth in a catastrophic extinction event,
In 2017 fossils belonging to an even older pterosaur, dating 170 million years ago to the Jurassic period, were discovered on the Scottish island of Skye with an estimated wingspan of 2. 5m (8ft).
Source of news: bbc.com
