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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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(#14) What Is Up With That Rattle?
The venomous rattlesnakes found in North America all have this distinctive tail feature. The rattle is made of a series of hollow, interlocked segments of keratin that vibrate when the snake contracts its tail muscles. The most widely accepted explanation for this feature and behavior is that it's meant to be a warning sign for predators.
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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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(#25) Could You Eat A Live Snake?
If you were Lebanese commando, you might have to! Apparently there's an annual ceremony wherein Lebanese commandos gather for demonstrations of strength, including eating a live snake with their bare hands. The Daily Mail even got photos of the challenge at a security convention in Beirut in 2015. Fair warning, it ain't pretty.
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(#18) The Caduceus And The Rod Of Asclepius
These two symbols of antiquity involving snakes and staffs are commonly confused. The Caduceus is a rod surmounted with wings and two snakes entwined around it, carried by the Greek god Hermes, and meant to be a symbol of trade and commerce, although it's also mistakenly used as a symbol of medicine. People confuse it with the Rod of Asclepius. Asclepius was the actual ancient Greek God of medicine and his staff only had one snake entwined around it, with no cap wings.
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(#16) Snakes Have A 'Jacobson's Organ'
Snakes are visually distinctive for their forked tongues, which let them both smell and taste the air. The tongue collects particles from the air and then presses them up to the Jacobson's organ which analyzes the particles to direct the snake towards prey. The organ lies at the base of the nasal cavity.
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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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