What is the difference between an amphibian and a reptile?
For as long as people have known about the existence of reptiles and amphibians, they have been confusing the two. The funny thing is that it’s very easy to tell a reptile apart from an amphibian. • Reptiles have scales. Amphibians have smooth skin (although some are warty). • Reptiles are total land animals. Amphibians need the water. And yet this is not always true. There are many marine reptiles, but they must go ashore to lay their eggs, well the sea snake might be a possible exception there. There are also amphibians that are able to spend their whole lives out of the water. They are rare, but there. • The real big difference (other than scales) is that reptiles use hardshelled, amniotic eggs for their babies. All amphibians have soft jellylike eggs. Those are the 3 main differences.
