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To mammalian and squamate predators that can sneak up to nesting or sleeping birds, it is more vulnerable however.

Squamate "reptiles" (lizards and snakes)

Squamate fossils first appear in the middle Jurassic period, but a mitochondrial phylogeny suggests they evolved in the late Permian.

Jucaraseps is an extinct genus of small squamate lizard known from the Early Cretaceous of Las Hoyas, Spain.

The newly discovered diversity of squamate species producing venoms is a treasure trove for those seeking to develop new pharmaceutical drugs; many of these venoms lower blood pressure, for example.

PAGE A14 The Squamates Are Coming It's squamate central at the American Museum of Natural History (squamate being the scientific name for about 8,000 species of reptiles with scales).

Though they survived the worst changes in Earth's history, many squamate species are endangered now due to habitat loss, hunting and poaching, the pet trade, alien species being introduced to their habitats (which puts native creatures at risk through competition, disease, and predation), and many other unnecessary reasons.