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The Truth About Snakebite
Many people live in fear of snakes, especially of venomous species that can inflict a lethal bite. There is evidence that our fear of snakes is innate, because our ancestors have been preyed upon by...
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#SnakesAtYourService Blog Carnival - 9th December!
Rough Green Snakes (Opheodrys aestivus)mostly eat insects and spiders.Photo by Kevin DursoNext week, a few herpetology bloggers, including myself, are putting on a blogging carnival to celebrate the...
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Blog Carnival: Ecology of Snake Sheds
Clic aquí para la edición españolaToday I am participating in my first Blog Carnival (or blogero, click here for the Spanish edition), which is called #SnakesAtYourService and is about the roles snakes...
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Africa's Giant Gaboon Vipers
For as long as I can remember, I've been impressed by Gaboon Vipers (Bitis gabonica). These western African behemoths can reach 5 3/4 feet in length and over 14.5 inches in girth, and weigh up to 25...
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The first invasive snake
Click here to read this post in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para leer este blog en español!Wolf Snakes (Lycodon aulicus) have become establishedon Mauritius, where they threaten native skinks and...
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Snakes that Give Virgin Birth
In continuing association with the group that brought you the #SnakesAtYourService December blog carnival, this post is part of the new Reptile & Amphibian Blogging Network's first event,...
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Why do snakes have two penises?
Click here to read this post in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para leer este blog en español!Figure from Laszlo 1975Recently somebody asked me "Why do snakes have two penises?" When I tried to answer, I...
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The most widespread snake in the world
Click here to read this post in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para leer este blog en español!Global distribution of snakesSnakes are found in almost all parts of the world, with the exception of New Zealand...
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Snakes long-lost
This post will soon be available in Spanish!Alternate title suggested by Mike Pingleton: Not all who slither are lostClarión Nightsnake (Hypsiglena unaocularis)Photograph from Mulcahy et al. 2014Just...
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Why do snakes flick their tongues?
This post will soon be available in SpanishEste puesto estará pronto disponible en españolYou've probably seen it before - a snake extends its forked tongue, waves it around rapidly, then retracts it....
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Tetrodotoxin-resistant snakes
Click here to read this post in SpanishHaga clic aquí para leer este blog en españolAn adult male Taricha granulosa in breeding condition.There is enough tetrodotoxin in this newt to kill youand about...
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Filesnakes, Wartsnakes, or Elephant Trunksnakes
Arafura Filesnake (Acrochordus arafurae)In the swamps, marshes, streams, and estuaries of northern Australia and southeastern Asia live ancient snakes as thick as your arm, with tongues as thin as a...
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Snake poop and the adaptive ballast hypothesis
Click here to read this post in SpanishHaga clic aquí para leer este blog en españolAlternate title suggested by David Steen: Why snakes might benefit from holding it Most people probably spend as...
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How to teach yourself about an obscure snake
This article will soon become available in SpanishThe world is full of obscure snakes. According to Darren Naish at Tetrapod Zoology, the more you know about them, the better a person you are. Writing...
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The 9,999th Reptile
This post will soon become available in SpanishNumber of new snake species by decade, with highlightsData from The Reptile DatabaseLinnaeus's 1758 Systema Naturae, the starting point of zoological...
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What's the big deal about these snake genomes anyway?
This post will soon become available in SpanishKing Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah; top) andBurmese Python (Python bivittatus; bottom), the two snake species whose genomes were fully sequenced in 2013One...
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Dwarf Boas
This post will soon become available in Spanish!Este post pronto estará disponible en español!Ambergris Cay Dwarf Boa (Tropidophis g. greenwayi)Now that the USA and Cuba are finally warming up to one...
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Anilius: The Pipesnake that Wasn't
This post will soon be available in SpanishAnilius scytale, the only living member of the family Aniliidae,one of only two snake families containing just a single speciesDeep in the Amazon rain forest...
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Rattlesnake Roundups
This post will soon become available in SpanishEastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus),the world's largest species of rattlesnake (maximum 8'3")Rattlesnakes are one of North America's...
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Spitting cobras
This post will soon be available in Spanish!Spitting cobras have been known for centuries,as you can see from this report published in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society in 19001A clever...
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