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...
Pompeii: Ancient pregnant tortoise surprises archaeologists
When Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago Pompeii's ancient residents were frozen in place by ash.
So too it turns out were The City 's flora and Fauna - including a pregnant tortoise with her egg.
Archaeologists found The Reptile 's remains buried Under Ash and rock where it had laid undiscovered since 79 AD.
The tortoise was sheltering beneath an already-destroyed building when volcanic disaster struck.
Archaeologists found The Remains while excavating an area of The City that its ancient inhabitants had been rebuilding after an earlier earthquake devastated Pompeii in 62 AD.
Around 2,000 years ago the 14cm (5. 5 inch) tortoise had burrowed into a tiny underground lair beneath a shop destroyed in that earlier quake.
Experts say the fact it was found with an egg suggests it was killed while trying to find somewhere peaceful to lay its offspring.
Oxford University archaeologist Mark Robinson , who discovered The Remains of another tortoise at a nearby Pompeii site in 2002, told The Bbc there were two explanations for how The Reptile had got there.
" One is that it is a pet tortoise that possibly escaped and made its way on to what were The Ruins of The Great earthquake, " He Said .
A likelier possibility is that it was a tortoise from the nearby countryside that had wandered into the Ancient City , He Said .
" Pompeii was substantially wrecked and not everywhere could be rebuilt after the earthquake. The flora and Fauna from the surrounding countryside had moved into The Town . "
Experts say The Discovery illustrates the richness of Pompeii's natural ecosystem in the period after the earthquake.
" The whole city was a Construction Site , and evidently some spaces were so unused that Wild Animals could roam, enter and try to lay their eggs, " said Pompeii's director general, Gabriel Zuchtriegel.
One visitor to Pompeii, a Finnish student who happened to be Passing By The Site when The Discovery was made, described what he saw to The Bbc as " spectacular. "
" They had just removed The Shell of The Animal , So What was visible was the skeleton and The Egg , " Joonas Vanhala said. " It was a light-brown, sandy colour. "
" I wouldn't have recognised it as an egg if they hadn't told me, " he added.
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