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Other snakes also have a diet of snails, but only those in the Pareidae group, found in tropical SE Asia, show asymmetry in their jaws.

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Right-handed snakes: convergent evolution of asymmetry for functional specialization | Biology Letters
External asymmetry found in diverse animals bears critical functions to fulfil ecological requirements. Some snail-eating arthropods exhibit directional asymmetry in their feeding apparatus for foragi...
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September 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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#SourceOfTheScience - Doi.org/10.1007/s10530-010-9908-3

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Identifying plausible scenarios for the establishment of invasive Burmese pythons (Python molurus) in Southern Florida - Biological Invasions
Successful invasions of secretive alien species often go unrecognized until spread has exceeded the point where control or eradication is feasible. In such situations, understanding factors that contr...
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September 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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#SourceOfTheScience - doi.org/10.1242/jeb.062539

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Snake Bioacoustics: Toward a Richer Understanding of the Behavioral Ecology of Snakes | The Quarterly Review of Biology: Vol 78, No 3
ABSTRACT Snakes are frequently described in both popular and technical literature as either deaf or able to perceive only groundborne vibrations. Physiological studies have shown that snakes are actua...
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September 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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What’s Batesian Mimicry you cry? Check out an earlier #ssSnaketember post on the topic:
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dinoroxy.bsky.social Roxanne Armfield @dinoroxy.bsky.social · Sep 2
2nd of #ssSnaketember! Time for Batesian Mimicry!

"It's red & black, stay back!" - is what these snakes want you to think.

A Batesian mimic is another term for "a critter in disguise". These snakes have patterns that make them look like a more dangerous type of #snake

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A red and black banded snake (Atractus thirhedrurus) in an “S” shape. On a light coloured background A black, red and white banded snake (Xenodon pulcher). Snake has a flattened nose (similar to a pig-snout). Snake is coiled around a person's hands. The head and first coil of a red, black and white banded snake (Cemophora coccinea). Snake has a round, black eye. Snake rests on white sand.
September 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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This means that when a snake jumps from a tree, it does not simply fall downwards (like a rock), but instead is able to glide a controlled horizontal distance away from its starting point (like a plane).

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Undulation enables gliding in flying snakes - Nature Physics
Observations of flying snakes inform the development of a dynamical model of gliding taking undulation into account. This work suggests that aerial undulation has a different function in snakes than i...
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September 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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The snake then regurgitates the unwanted eggshell.

This prevents the eggshell from taking up unnecessary space in the stomach, and it is the yellow yolk & egg white inside that provide the most nutrition.

Lunch is served!

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A light brown snake with dark brown spot patches (Dasypeltis scabra) has its head laid over one large coil. It looks up and to the right with a grey eye with a slit black pupil.
September 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Deep diving behaviour has not been recorded before in this kind of sea snake, so more observations & targeted research will be needed to answer these questions.

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First records of sea snakes (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) diving to the mesopelagic zone (>200 m)
Viviparous sea snakes (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) are fully marine reptiles distributed in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Their known maximum diving depth ranges b....
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September 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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#SourceOfTheScience – 2018 IUCN SSC Snake and Lizard RLA report
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September 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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#SourceOfTheScience - doi.org/10.1038/ncom...

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Coral snakes predict the evolution of mimicry across New World snakes - Nature Communications
Toxic and venomous species often have conspicuous warning colouration that is mimicked by harmless species. Here, Davis Rabosky et al. combine phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses to reveal that mi...
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September 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM