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A spine with attitude, smelling the world with its tongue and swallowing dinners bigger than its head.
means A long, limbless reptile that slides along the ground, often with a forked tongue and sometimes venomous fangs.
from From Old English 'snaca,' rooted in a Proto-Germanic word (cousin to Old Norse 'snākr' and German dialects) that likely traces back to a Proto-Indo-European base meaning 'to crawl' or 'to creep' — the same slithering ancestor that may have given us 'snail.' So the creature was named, fittingly, for the way it moves.
tongue flickForked tongue smells in stereo, tracking prey directionally
jaw trickLower jaw splits, stretching wide around huge meals
no eyelidsThey sleep with a clear scale over each eye
venom originSnake venom is modified, weaponized saliva
ribs galoreSome species pack over 400 vertebrae