MARINE REPTILES

Of all of the marine classifications, reptiles are my favorite. They are fun to compare to land reptiles. Reptiles originated in the water and evolved with lungs onto the land. Prehistoric reptiles may have had gills, but this evolutionary stage got rid of them. The most known current marine reptile species are turtles and snakes. Crocodiles are, in my opinion, marine reptiles. A lot of people don't think that they are. They have been secondarily adapted to a marine life.