What are snakes?

Answer 1

Snakes are elongated legless cold-blooded carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all animals of the order squamate, snakes are ectothermic amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales.They range in size from the tiny, 3.9 inch (10 cm) long thread snake to pythons and anacondas of up to 25 feet (7.6 metres) in length.In order 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.Many species of snakes have skulls with many more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws.Most species are non-venomous and those that have venom use it primarily to kill and subdue prey rather than self-defense. Some possess venom potent enough to cause painful injury or death to humans. Those which are non-venomous either swallow prey alive or kill it via constriction.Snakes are thought to have evolved from either burrowing or aquatic lizards during the Cretaceous period (c 150 Ma).Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica and most islands.A love of snakes is called ophiophilia, a fear of snakes is called ophidiophobia (or snakephobia), a specialist in snakes is an ophiologist.Snakes are legless reptiles that have no visible moving eyelids, and no external ears. They are obligated carnivores, meaning they have to eat meat (to include fish and insects) as their physiology does not allow for them to benefit from eating fruit or vegetables.They lack the teeth to chew up their food so they swallow their prey whole and are able to do so because their skull is divided into 4 different sections, 2 each on the top and the bottom.a snake is a leg less reptile that has a tubular body. It can eat mouse, rabbits, frogs, fish, humans. Snakes that are not poisonous can be pets.

Answer 2

Snakes are elongated legless cold-blooded carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all animals of the order squamate, snakes are ectothermic amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales.

They range in size from the tiny, 3.9 inch (10 cm) long thread snake to pythons and anacondas of up to 25 feet (7.6 metres) in length.

In order 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.

Many species of snakes have skulls with many more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws.

Most species are non-venomous and those that have venom use it primarily to kill and subdue prey rather than self-defense. Some possess venom potent enough to cause painful injury or death to humans. Those which are non-venomous either swallow prey alive or kill it via constriction.

Snakes are thought to have evolved from either burrowing or aquatic lizards during the Cretaceous period (c 150 Ma).

Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica and most islands.

A love of snakes is called ophiophilia, a fear of snakes is called ophidiophobia (or snakephobia), a specialist in snakes is an ophiologist.

Snakes are legless reptiles that have no visible moving eyelids, and no external ears. They are obligated carnivores, meaning they have to eat meat (to include fish and insects) as their physiology does not allow for them to benefit from eating fruit or vegetables.

They lack the teeth to chew up their food so they swallow their prey whole and are able to do so because their skull is divided into 4 different sections, 2 each on the top and the bottom.

a snake is a leg less reptile that has a tubular body. It can eat mouse, rabbits, frogs, fish, humans. Snakes that are not poisonous can be pets.