Snake


Snakes are lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their own lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile mouth. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, and on most smaller land masses; exceptions include some large islands, such as Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, they Hawaiian archipelago, and the islands of New Zealand, and many small islands of the Atlantic and central Pacific oceans.

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Kingdom Amilia
class reptilia

Titanoboa is an extincted genus of very large snake. Fossils of Titanoboa have been found around 58 to 60 million years ago. On La Guajira in northeastern Colombia. Scientists thinks that they  could grow up to 12.8 m long and reach a weight of 1,135 kg.

The Inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) is considered the most venomous snake in the world with a murine LD 50 value of 0.025 mg/kg SC.

To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung.

They usually eat small animals  including lizards, frogs, other snakes, small mammals, birds, eggs, fish, snails, worms or insects.



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