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(#3) The Black Mamba Is The Most Dangerous Snake In The World
Kill Bill got this one dead right. Black mambas may not technically be the most venomous snakes in the world but they are widely considered the most dangerous. They're very fast as far as snakes go and can lift up to a third of their body off the ground in defensive stances. They're extremely territorial and can deliver multiple envenoming bites in a single strike, in rapid succession.
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(#23) The Vast Terminology Of Snake Head Scales
There's an extensive vocabulary to describe the scales that cover a snake's head. They're mostly named for their positioning relative to the other features of a snake head. These include the preocular, presubocular and postocular scales around the eye for example.
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(#2) It's Venomous Snakes, Not Poisonous Snakes
The technical difference between poison and venom is that poison is inhaled or ingested whereas venom is injected. Venomous snakes like vipers and cobras inject their prey with venom through their fangs.
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(#12) Where CAN'T Snakes Be Found?
Snakes can be found just about anywhere, save for the Arctic Circle and Antarctica. But you might be surprised that some of the major islands they also can't be found in Iceland, Ireland, and New Zealand.
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(#7) The Inland Taipan Is The Most Venomous Snake In The World
Commonly called the fierce snake, these are found in the arid regions of central Australia. Snake venom toxicity is measured by median lethal dose, written as LD50. In testing on rats, the LD50 for inland taipan venom is .000025 grams per kilogram of body mass. To put that in perspective, the amount of venom an inland taipan can deliver in a single bit is potent enough to kill 100 adult human males.
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(#10) There Are Two Technically Poisonous Snakes
The Rhabdophis genus of snakes found in Southeast Asia and they are actually poisonous due to the toxins they sequester from toads they eat. These snakes can then secrete these poisons to ward off predators. Oregon garter snakes also retain enough poisons in their liver from the newts they eat to be toxic to would-be predators like crows or foxes.
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With regard to mysterious snakes, people from all over the world have created many myths and legends. Since ancient times, snakes have been worshiped and deified in many areas, symbolized power, wisdom, and renewal, people are afraid of these cold reptiles. There are more than 3,000 species of snakes on the blue planet, and about 1,000 of them are poisonous.
Snakes are one of the scariest animals on the planet, some of which are born with two heads, some can reproduce asexually. The random tool will tell you 25 unusual and interesting facts about snakes that you may not know before.
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