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What Would a Reptile with Facial Muscles look like?

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I have been wanting to make a carnivorous reptilian creature with the ability to speak fluently using its speech muscles and its vocal tract, it can also perform facial expressions just like how humans do, but there is a problem, humans have complex facial muscles to allow them to speak properly and therefore a complex skull structure, and being a rather layperson in science I do not know how to make a reptile have the scientifically accurate skull and facial muscle structure to allow it to speak and perform facial expressions, so as a result I cannot picture what a reptile with speech and facial expression muscles would look like.

I thought that the answerer get an idea of how facial muscles and speech muscles would be applied to a reptile and the skull alterations that are required for it, I applied some images from the internet comparing the human skull with the human skull with speech and facial muscles, a dog skull with a dog skull with facial muscles and below, a lace monitor skull with a living lace monitor lizard:

Human Skull Human Facial Muscles

Dog Skull Dog Facial Muscles

Skull of Lace Monitor Lace Monitor Lizard

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