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    Snakes are elongated, legless reptiles that can be venomous or nonvenomous. They are found worldwide except Antarctica. Most snakes kill prey through constriction or swallowing it alive, and have highly mobile jaws that allow them to eat prey much larger than their heads. While legless, some snakes retain vestigial claws. Snakes are thought to have evolved from burrowing or aquatic lizards and show diversity in habitats, diets, reproduction methods, and sizes ranging from 10cm thread snakes to over 12m reticulated pythons.

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    Snakes are elongated, legless reptiles that can be venomous or nonvenomous. They are found worldwide except Antarctica. Most snakes kill prey through constriction or swallowing it alive, and have highly mobile jaws that allow them to eat prey much larger than their heads. While legless, some snakes retain vestigial claws. Snakes are thought to have evolved from burrowing or aquatic lizards and show diversity in habitats, diets, reproduction methods, and sizes ranging from 10cm thread snakes to over 12m reticulated pythons.

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    Snakes are elongated, legless reptiles that can be venomous or nonvenomous. They are found worldwide except Antarctica. Most snakes kill prey through constriction or swallowing it alive, and have highly mobile jaws that allow them to eat prey much larger than their heads. While legless, some snakes retain vestigial claws. Snakes are thought to have evolved from burrowing or aquatic lizards and show diversity in habitats, diets, reproduction methods, and sizes ranging from 10cm thread snakes to over 12m reticulated pythons.

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    Snakes are elongated, legless reptiles that can be venomous or nonvenomous. They are found worldwide except Antarctica. Most snakes kill prey through constriction or swallowing it alive, and have highly mobile jaws that allow them to eat prey much larger than their heads. While legless, some snakes retain vestigial claws. Snakes are thought to have evolved from burrowing or aquatic lizards and show diversity in habitats, diets, reproduction methods, and sizes ranging from 10cm thread snakes to over 12m reticulated pythons.

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    GENERAL CLASIFICATION

    OF SNAKE

    FAMILY /SPECIES
    CHARACTERISTIC :
    POPULATION / LIVING :

    FAMILY / SPECIES
    Most species are nonvenomous and those that have venom use it
    primarily to kill and subdue prey rather than for self-defense. Some
    possess venom potent enough to cause painful injury or death to
    humans. Nonvenomous snakes either swallow prey alive or kill by
    constriction.

    CHARACTERISTIC OF SNAKE
    Snakes are elongated
    [2]
    Legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes
    that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of
    eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are
    ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping
    scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more
    joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey
    much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. 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. Some species
    retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side
    of the cloaca.
    Snake have to legs but a long time ago they had claws to
    help them silter along.

    Snakes ar not slimy.

    They are covered in scales which are just bumps the skin.
    There skin is hard and glossy to reduce friction us he snake
    silter along the ground.

    POPULATION / LIVING OF SNAKE


    Living snakes are found on every continent except
    Antarctica, and on most smaller land masses; exceptions
    include some large islands, such as Ireland, Iceland, Greenland,
    the Hawaiian archipelago, and the islands of New Zealand, and
    many small
    [3]
    islands of the Atlantic and central Pacific oceans. Additionally,
    sea snakes are widespread throughout the Indian and Pacific
    Oceans. More than 20 families are currently recognized,
    [4][5]
    comprising about 500 genera and about 3,400 species. They
    [6]
    range in size from the tiny, 10.4 cm-long thread snake to the
    [7]
    reticulated python of 6.95 meters (22.8 ft) in length. The fossil
    [8]
    species Titanoboa cerrejonensis was 12.8 meters (42 ft) long.
    Snakes are thought to have evolved from either burrowing or
    aquatic lizards, perhaps during the Jurassic period, with the
    [9]
    earliest known fossils dating to between 143 and 167 Ma ago.
    The diversity of modern snakes appeared during the Paleocene
    period (c 66 to 56 Ma ago). The oldest preserved descriptions of
    snakes can be found in the Brooklyn Papyrus.

    DESCRIPTION OF SNAKE
    Behaviour: snakes often sun bake on rocks in the warm weather.
    This is because snake are cold-blooded and they need the son
    warmth to heat their body up. Most snake live in the country. Some
    typesof sake live in trees, some live in water, but most live on the
    ground in deserted rabbit burrows, in thick, long grass and in old
    logs. A snakes diet usually consist on frogs,lizard, and mice and
    other snakes. The anaconda can eat small crocodiles and even wild
    boars.
    Snake of carnivorous animal. They eat the prey without
    chewing. The elastic jaws enable them to swallow their preey while
    its teeth are not for chewing but as a barrier to prevent its prey to
    escape. They eats various types of animals that are smaller than its
    body such as fish, frogs, tadpoles, birds, mammals, and other small
    snakes. Even, there are some sneakes eat larger animal than their
    body such as pythons and anacondas which can eat goats, deer ,
    elk, and even humans
    Most types of snake reproduce by spawning. They can produce
    so much eggs even can reach hundreds off eggs. They usually lay
    their eggs in the hole of weathered wood ,or under a pile of dead
    leaves. There are several types of snakes are knon to bear their
    children calledas ovoviviparous snake such as kadut snake,pucuk
    snake and sea snake.

    CHARACTERISTIC OF SNAK

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