Unknown Facts about Snakes

In the world there are more than 3000 species of snake. They live on every of the continents, except Antarctica. Snakes are famous for their long and thin bodies.

All organs on the snake have adapted to their unusual bodies. Snakes lost their legs with evolution.

Snakes are animals that are usually colorful and their dimension is different for every species.

The smallest snake in the world is Barbados threadsnake, which is 3.9 inches (10 centimeters) long. The largest snake is python and it can grow 30 feet (9 meters).

The largest fossilized snake which was ever discovered was 15 meters long.

About 70 percent of the snake reproduce laying eggs and the other 30 percent reproduce like mammal. Some snakes give birth to their young like mammals because of the climate where they live in. If the climate is cold eggs can’t develop and hatch and in low temperatures.

Snakes are carnivores. They swallow their prey. They can swallow pray 100 percent bigger than them. To do that snake must unhinge their jaw.

Snakes have very slow metabolism and because of that they don’t hunt often.

Snakes have very strong enzymes in their stomach which digests all prey.

Snakes are ectothermic animals and they can’t regulate their own body temperature.

Snake don’t smell with their noses, like humans. They have split tongue and they use it to smell and taste the chemical compounds in the air. Many of the snakes have poison glands on the base of their teeth.

The eyes of the snake do not move.

Also, snakes don’t have auricles.

Snakes change their skin as they grow. They shed their skin three times per year. This is called molting.

The rarest species of snake is St. Lucia racer. In the wilderness there are only 18-100.