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The description of its habit was based on Andreas Cleyer, who in 1684 described a gigantic snake that crushed large animals by coiling around their bodies and crushing their bones. [8] Henry Yule in his 1886 work Hobson-Jobson , notes that the word became more popular due to a piece of fiction published in 1768 in the Scots Magazine by a ...
The bandy-bandy is a smooth-scaled, glossy snake with a distinctive pattern of sharply contrasting black and white rings that continue right around the body. Bandy-bandys are strikingly distinguishable from other Australian land snakes by their unique banding pattern, [ 3 ] which gives the species both its common names and its scientific name ...
Children's python (Antaresia childreni) is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Pythonidae.The species is named after John George Children.It is a nocturnal species occurring in the northern half of Australia and generally found on the ground, although it often climbs trees.
The California kingsnake is a cathemeral species of snake; they may be active day or night depending on ambient temperatures. [5] [10] When disturbed, California kingsnakes will often coil their bodies into a ball [11] to hide their heads, hiss, and rattle their tails, which can produce a sound somewhat resembling that of a rattlesnake.
The video was actually shot in 2013, but only went viral in recent weeks. As proof that baby Alyssa wasn't hurt, the video also showed her at age three, happily playing with a snake.
Body adaptations, especially a paddle-like tail, help yellow-lipped sea kraits to swim. These adaptations are also found in more distantly related sea snakes (Hydrophiinae) because of convergent evolution, but because of the differences in motion between crawling and swimming, these same adaptations impede the snake's terrestrial motion. On dry ...
The snake returns in the Book of Exodus when Moses turns his staff into a snake as a sign of God's power, and later when he makes the Nehushtan, a bronze snake on a pole that when looked at cured the people of bites from the snakes that plagued them in the desert.
Sidewinding in a newborn sidewinder rattlesnake. Yellow regions are lifted above the sand and in motion at the time of the photo, while green regions are in static contact with the sand. Blue denotes tracks. Scale imprints are visible in the tracks, showing that the snake's body is static during ground contact. Tracks of a sidewinder in the sand.