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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 flick
- Forked tongue smells in stereo, tracking prey directionally
- jaw trick
- Lower jaw splits, stretching wide around huge meals
- no eyelids
- They sleep with a clear scale over each eye
- venom origin
- Snake venom is modified, weaponized saliva
- ribs galore
- Some species pack over 400 vertebrae
king cobra — longest venomous snake in the world, up to 11 feet, found in southeast asia
anaconda — heaviest snake species, weighs up to 550 pounds, lives in south american rainforests
black mamba — fastest snake, moves at 12.5 mph, native to africa with highly toxic venom