To ensure the best possible guest experience, hourly capacities are limited. We strongly recommend purchasing your tickets or making your reservations in advance to ensure you get to visit on your preferred date and entry time. Popular days and times do sell out. If you wait to purchase tickets at walk-up, you may need to wait hours for the next available entry time or find there is no remaining ticket availability.
With Plan-Ahead Pricing, the further in advance you purchase your tickets, the more you save. Get tickets HERE.
Annual Passholders or Members and undated ticket holders can make reservations HERE.
A reopening date for I-471 has not been identified. This closure may impact your travel to Newport Aquarium.
We recommend that you plan extra time for your journey and use GPS navigation for the best alternative route to Newport Aquarium.
If you have any questions, please call 1-800-406-3474 and we’d be happy to help!
Covered in scales, reptiles are ectotherms (cold-blooded vertebrates) that are found on every continent except Antarctica and in every ocean except the Artic and Southern oceans. Right now, approximately 6,500 reptile species are known to exist.
Reptiles come in a large range of body sizes, shapes and colors. There are four main groups of reptiles recognized today: Crocodilians (alligators and crocodiles), Sphenodontia (tuataras), Squamata (lizards and snakes), and Testudines (terrapins, tortoises, and turtles).
Though some reptiles are live bearers, most reptiles lay eggs that are protected with a leathery shell to keep them from drying out. This distinguishes them from the amphibians, which must return to water to lay their eggs. In some reptiles, such as crocodilians and turtles, the gender of their babies is determined by the temperature of the nest. The eggs are buried in a nest of rotting vegetation which keeps the eggs warm.
Most snakes do not build nests for their eggs, but female pythons incubate their eggs by wrapping their bodies around them. The snake will occasionally “shiver” to help keep the eggs warm.
Very few reptiles show parental care towards the eggs or the young after they are born. Eggs become easy and tasty meals for a variety of predators. Young reptiles can be preyed upon by other large animals, including members of their own species.
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