snakes

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Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.[2] Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards.[3] Legless lizards resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal

FACTS ABOUT SNAKES

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There are over 3000 kinds of snakes in the world. They are present in every continent except Antarctica.Snakes, like other reptiles, are cold-blooded. This means that their body temperature changes in according to the temperature of their environment, unlike warm-blooded animals whose temperature remains constant. Snakes which live in colder climates will therefore hibernate in winter as it would otherwise be too cold for them to survive

Snakes cannot bite their food so in order to eat large prey, they will unhinge their jaw to swallow the food whole.

Snakes can open their mouths up to 150 degrees, allowing them to eat things that are 75-100% bigger than their own size. It has even been known for a snake to burst after eating prey that is too big for its stomach!Snakes such as boas and anacondas suffocate their prey by squeezing it to death.Because snakes have a slow metabolism rate, they don’t have to eat as often as other animals. The King Cobra can go months without having to eat.Snakes use their tongue to smell.A snake’s skin does not grow with the body the same way it does in humans. Each year, snakes will shed their skins 3-6 times to allow for further growth. This process usually lasts for a few days.

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Some snakes can breathe partially through their skin allowing them to dive deep underwater

There are around 700 species of venomous snakes. The venom is used for self-defence and for killing prey.Rattlesnakes have a loud rattle on the end of their tail which they use if they feel threatened. Other snakes hiss when they are threatened.Despite snakes often being feared, more people are killed by bees than snakes every year,70% of snake species lay eggs while the other 30% give birth to live young.The Black Mamba is the fastest snake in the world and can move up to 12mph (20kmph)!

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The smallest snakes in the world are Brahminy blind snakes which can be as short as 2 ½ inches long. They are often mistaken for earthworms.There is an island in Brazil that has up to 5 snakes per square metre! People are not allowed to go to the island as it is the home of the golden lancehead snake which is critically endangered.Two-headed snakes are not just mythical creatures – they can occur on rare occasions! Often the two heads will fight each other for food despite sharing the same body

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