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Round Island splitjaw snakes
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Dwarf pipesnakes
To view this post in Spanish, click here!Para ver este blog en español, haga clic aquí!Anomochilus monticolaA contest to be the most enigmatic snake would be like a contest to be the least well-known...
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Identifying snake sheds, part II
To view this post in Spanish, click here!Para ver este blog en español, haga clic aquí!For a more comprehensive guide to identifying snake sheds in the USA and Canada, see this post.Not long ago, I...
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The snakes that eat caviar
Click here for this article in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para ver este artículo en español!Banded sea krait, Laticauda colubrinaMarine snakes are fascinating. Entire articles have been written about their...
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Snake-eating beetles
To view this blog post in Spanish, click here!Para ver este blog en español, haga clic aquí!So little is known about the parasites of snakes that we tend to discount them all together, but the...
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Snakes that chew their food
To view this blog post in Spanish, click here!Para ver este blog en español, haga clic aquí!I have to admit right up front that the title of this article is not really accurate. No snakes chew their...
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Egg-eating snakes
To view this blog post in Spanish, click here!Para ver este blog en español, haga clic aquí!I think we can all agree that amniotic eggs are delicious. They also happen to be one of the best sources of...
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This blog is supposed to be about snakes, but if you can't make exceptions...
Click here for this article in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para ver este artículo en español!Sphaerodactylus elegans of CubaGeckos are some of the most diverse and widespread squamates on Earth. They range...
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Snake-eating snakes
Click here to view this article in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para ver este artículo en español!I've mentioned before how snakes can eat nearly anything, due to amazing adaptations of their head and jaws...
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Snakes flying without planes
Click here to view this article in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para ver este artículo en español!By now, all of us herpetologists have heard quite enough 'Snakes on a Plane' jokes, thank you very much...
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Stiletto snakes
Click here to view this article in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para ver este artículo en español!Atractaspis duerdeniI've always thought that the atractaspids were a highly interesting group of snakes,...
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Scientific American Guest Blog
Also now available in Spanish!Ahora también disponible en español!Check out the piece on toxin-sequestering snakes I was invited to write for the Scientific American Guest...
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Goo-eating snakes and the eggs that evade them
Click here to view this article in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para ver este artículo en español!I have just returned from attending the Seventh World Congress of Herpetology (WCH7) in Vancouver, Canada....
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Squirrel v. rattlesnake
This article is part of a series highlighting new research in snake biology presented by herpetologists at the World Congress of Herpetology VII in Vancouver, British Columbia. If you want to learn...
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Snakes that can see without eyes
This article is part of a series highlighting new research in snake biology presented by herpetologists at the World Congress of Herpetology VII in Vancouver, British Columbia. If you want to learn...
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Recent conservation successes with Indigo Snakes
This article is part of a series highlighting new research in snake biology presented by herpetologists at the World Congress of Herpetology VII in Vancouver, British Columbia. If you want to learn...
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Why are there no herbivorous snakes?
This article is part of a series highlighting new research in snake biology presented by herpetologists at the World Congress of Herpetology VII in Vancouver, British Columbia. If you want to learn...
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Snakes that polish their scales, and why they do it
Click here to view the Spanish translation of this article!Haga clic aquí para ver la traducción al español de este artículo!Psammophis schokari eating a lizard, Phrynocephalusmystaceus, in KazakhstanI...
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Identifying snake sheds, part III
Click here to view this post in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para ver este blog en español!I noticed that a huge proportion of the hits on this site are for the posts about identifying snake sheds (parts I...
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Snakes of Western and Central Africa
To view this post in Spanish, click here!Para ver este blog en español, haga clic aquí!West-Central Africa is, herpetologically, a little known region of the world, although the herp biodiversity there...
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