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Pope's pit viper

(Trimeresurus popeiorum)

vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have independently evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs at least twenty-five times via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae

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Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, and on most smaller land masses; exceptions include some large islands, such as Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, and the islands of New Zealand, as well as many small islands of the Atlantic and central Pacific oceans. Additionally,
Ma ago. The diversity of modern snakes appeared during the Paleocene epoch (c. 66 to 56 Ma ago, after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event). The oldest preserved descriptions of snakes can be found in the Brooklyn Papyrus. (Full article...
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Vipera berus, also known as the common European adder and the common European viper, is a species of venomous snake in the family Viperidae. The species is extremely widespread and can be found throughout much of Europe, and as far as East Asia. There are three recognised subspecies.
Known by a host of common names including common adder and common viper, the adder has been the subject of much folklore in Britain and other European countries. It is not regarded as especially dangerous;^{[Natrix natrix. (Full article...
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Barbados threadsnake
Smooth green snake
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... that the Maloja Wind in Switzerland can produce a narrow and elongated low-lying cloud known as the "Maloja Snake"?

... that the manga series Reptilia was inspired in part by a story from Japanese folklore about a woman who is transformed into a snake, told to author Kazuo Umezu as a child?

... that Olivia Rodrigo can write ballads about homeschooled girls as well as about songbirds and snakes?

... that the Voice of Freedom had to counter venomous snakes, leeches, and other wildlife?

... that following the introduction of the round goby to Lake Erie, the Lake Erie watersnake's population recovered enough to be removed from the U.S. threatened species list?

... that when a Russian warship
asked the Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island to surrender, their response was "Russian warship, go fuck yourself
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... that the speed of the red whip snake enables it to feed largely on lizards?

... that the bite of the colourful
Collett's snake can lead to rhabdomyolysis and kidney failure
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... that biologist Robert C. Stebbins published research on the sidewinder rattlesnake?

... that in 2007, three specimens of the Caspian whipsnake were found in Galați County, the first in Moldavia (eastern Romania) since 1937?

... that the
Eaten Alive
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Image 1
Eupodophis descouensi (from Snake
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Image 2Australia-Oceania Köppen Map (from Australian snake habitats)
Image 3The world's most venomous snake, based on LD₅₀, is the inland taipan of Australia. (from Venomous snake)
Image 4Common Blind Snake (Ramphotyphlops braminus) (from List of snakes of South Asia)
Image 5Narcisse Snake Dens welcome sign (from Narcisse Snake Dens)
Image 6Innocuous milk snakes are often mistaken for coral snakes whose venom is deadly to humans. (from Snake)
Image 7Crawling prints of a snake (from Snake)
Image 8The garter snake has been studied for sexual selection. (from Snake)
Image 9A common watersnake shedding its skin (from Snake)
Image 10The reverse side of the throne of Pharaoh Tutankhamun with four golden uraeus cobra figures. Gold with lapis lazuli; Valley of the Kings, Thebes (1347–37 BCE). (from Snake)
Image 11Medusa (1597) by the Italian artist Caravaggio (from Snake)
Image 12
Eupodophis descouensi (from Snake
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Image 13The lateral view of a king cobra's skull showing fangs (from Venomous snake)
Image 14A line diagram from The Fauna of British India by G. A. Boulenger (1890), illustrating the terminology of shields on the head of a snake (from Snake)
Image 15Dolichophis jugularis preying on a sheltopusik (from Snake)
Image 16
Vipera berus, one fang in glove with a small venom stain, the other still in place (from Snake
)

Image 17An adult Barbados threadsnake,
Leptotyphlops carlae, on an American quarter dollar (from Snake
)

Image 18Snake coiled on a stick in
landscaper after he bulldozed the pile in late autumn 2018. (from Snake
)

Image 19Eupodophis descouensi hind leg (from Snake)
Image 20Most common symptoms of any kind of snake bite envenomation. Furthermore, there is vast variation in symptoms between bites from different types of snakes. (from Snake)
Image 21Approximate world distribution of snakes (from Snake)
Image 22Tetrapodophis (from Snake)
Image 23Rod of Asclepius, in which the snake, through ecdysis, symbolizes healing (from Snake)
Image 24A red-sided garter snake (from Narcisse Snake Dens)
Image 25The Indian cobra is the most common subject of snake charmings. (from Snake)
Image 26Ballcourt marker from the Postclassic site of Mixco Viejo in Guatemala. This sculpture depicts Kukulkan, jaws agape, with the head of a human warrior emerging from his maw. (from Snake)
Image 27Close up of a red-sided garter snake
Image 28Wart snake (Acrochordus granulatus) (from List of snakes of South Asia)
Image 29The Binocellate Cobra(naja naja) (from List of snakes of South Asia)
Image 30Mouse embryo 12 day post fertilization side by side with corn snake embryo 2 days post ovo-positioning. (from Snake)
Image 31Snakes composing a bronze
kerykeion from the mythical Longanus river in Sicily (from Snake
)

Image 32African egg-eating snake eating an egg (from Snake)
Image 33Diagram illustrating differential somite size due to difference in somitogenesis clock oscillation (from Snake)
Image 34The skeletons of snakes are radically different from those of most other reptiles (as compared with the turtle here, for example), consisting almost entirely of an extended ribcage. (from Snake)
Image 35Common Tree Snake (from Australian snake habitats)
Image 36
Golden tree snake climbing a flower (from Snake
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Image 37A neonate sidewinder rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes) sidewinding (from Snake)
Image 38Snake meat, in a Taipei restaurant (from Snake)