snakes
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50-Foot-Long Fossil Snake May Be the Largest That Ever Lived
A newly described fossil snake in India may be the largest that ever lived, according to a team that studied 27 vertebrae recovered from a lignite mine in India. The new species is dubbed Vasuki indicus—named for India and the mythical serpent that wraps itself around the neck of the Hindu god Shiva. Extrapolating the…
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YouTuber Gives Snake Legs, Defies God
Do snakes want their legs back? That was the question Allen Pan, a YouTuber who specialises in making strange inventions, set out to answer.
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Snakes Invented an Incredibly Creepy Way to Climb Trees
Jaw-dropping footage taken in Guam shows a previously unknown climbing strategy employed by brown tree snakes.
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Horrified Scientists Watch Snakes Feasting on the Organs of Living Toads
Biologists in Thailand have documented a behaviour never seen before in snakes, in which the limbless reptiles eviscerated and consumed the organs of living toads.