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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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#SourceOfTheScience - doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

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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
What’s Batesian Mimicry you cry? Check out an earlier #ssSnaketember post on the topic:
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#SourceOfTheScience - doi.org/10.1086/377052

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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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September 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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).

#SourceOfTheScience - doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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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
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!

#SourceOfTheScience - doi.org/10.1111/j.14...

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September 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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
#SourceOfTheScience – 2018 IUCN SSC Snake and Lizard RLA report
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iucnredlist.org Accessed 03/09/25

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September 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM