Snakes are the most modern of reptiles but perhaps the least understood reptiles. Most people are afraid of snakes, even those with an educated understanding of the environment and nature. This is unfortunate because the average snakes that turns up in the backyard or the forest is usually harmless harmless. Many snakes are even helpful to humans. This paper will help to clarify which are indeed dangerous and how to detect them. Snakes inhabit a wide variety of ecologic habitats such as land, trees, underground, fresh water, and salt water. They are found on every continent except Antarctica. .
Snakes are the most modern of reptiles. They first appear in the fossil record during the time of the dinosaurs. Their fossil history is not very well known because snake skeletons are very delicate and do not fossilize easily. By carefully examining what they have found and comparing it to other close relatives such as lizards, scientists have been able to construct a theory about their evolution. Snakes, like all living things have evolved, which allows them to adapt over time in response to the environment and other factors to produce entirely new species. This is known as natural selection. Those animals with superior traits live longest and reproduce. Snakes are thought to have evolved originally from a group of ancient amphibians knows as the labrynthodonts. They were called that because of their distinctive teeth, which were shaped, in a mazelike pattern. Reptiles developed from these amphibians as a result of shelled eggs which were able to be laid on land and did not require water. These reptiles began a burrowing way of life. They tunneled though dirt in search of earthworms and other food. Over millions of years they lost their external limbs and their ears so they were able to burrow more easily. At the time that dinosaurs were becoming extinct, these snakes began coming to the surface. They then developed a new legless mode of locomotion and diversified into many ecological niches.
Many snake bite happen when some one provokes the snakes. ... Avoid places where snakes might hide. ... Poisonous snakes include any of the fallowing snake these are just a few, rattlesnakes, copperhead, cottonmouth, coral snake. ... The most common poisonous snake is the sea snake. ... Good examples of these types of snakes are the cobra and coral snakes. ...
Snake is an animal with a long, legless body covered by dry scales. To move about on land, a snake usually slides on its belly. ... Snakes belong to a class (group) of animals called reptiles. ... No other South American snake approaches this length. ... These snakes live near water, often swimming in rivers. ...
Critical Analysis: The Snake In the story The Snake, by John Steinbeck, a mysterious woman visits Dr. ... The woman asks if she can see a male snake. ... The woman then asks if she can see her snake eat. ... After the snake eats she leave and never returns. ... In John Steinbeck The Snake, the author uses imagery to describe the mystic woman. ...
Snake Locomotion Snakes evolved over time a way of achieving locomotion without using legs. The Prairie King Snake (Lampropeltis calligaster calligaster) uses three types of movement, like any other snake. ... Sidewinding is a fourth type of movement that the Prairie King Snake does not perform, while other snakes do. ... The snake also moved much faster than the previous trials. ... The dowels, falling sideways, were symbolic of the vectors of the snake's motion canceling out, which cause the snake to, ultimately, move forward. ...
For example, you might hear someone say, "That guy is a snake" or "don't trust him, he's a snake.... When we say, "Stay away from that snake its poisonous" it means that the snake can kill you. ... "Did you see that snake in the grass," refers to a reptile snake in the grass. ... "Snake-skin," which is defined as leather prepared from the skin of a snake. "Snake-bite" means that a snake has bitten someone or thing. ...
The Rainbow Snake The myth entitled The Rainbow Snake is an Australian Aborigine myth that deals with the creation of many objects on earth. ... The myth The Rainbow Snake describes one of these events. ... At this point in the myth the snake is introduced. ... One could assume in this myth that the snake represents good and evil. ... As mentioned above, the snake is also representative to the circle of life. ...
There are many poisonous snakes in the United States. ... These dangerous snakes closely resemble harmless water snakes that leave in the same habitat. Therefore it is best to leave all water snakes alone. ... These places provide hiding spaces for snakes. ... Snakes: Illnesses & Conditions. 22 Apr. 2003. ...
Corn snakes breed from March to May. ... Sexing Corn Snakes There are 2 methods to determine the sex of a corn snake. ... It is the safest way for baby snakes but should not be done after a snake reaches adulthood. ... Breeding Corn snakes are one of the most bred snakes and one of the simplest. ... Any morph of corn snake can breed together. ...
