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snakes

Boa constrictor

Life

Boa constrictors move ribs to avoid suffocating when they kill prey

The boa constrictor has developed a way to control air movement in its lungs using ribs in the lower part of its body, so it can breathe while it squeezes the life out of its prey

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Snake eating bird

Life

Snakes started eating birds and mammals after dinosaurs went extinct

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Nujiang pit viper (Gloydius lipipengi sp. nov)

Life

Venomous viper species from the Tibetan plateau discovered in museum

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Snake-like robot

Technology

Snake-like robot could explore Saturn鈥檚 icy moon Enceladus

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snake with fangs

Life

Snakes evolved venom fangs multiple times from wrinkles in their teeth

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pit viper

Life

Snakes know how much venom they have and won’t attack if running low

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Life

An ancient rattlesnake lived in the jaw of a dead mastodon

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Life

Snakes make their bodies lassos in a strange new climbing technique

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python

Life

Python tried to eat sleeping woman while being tracked by biologists

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Flying snake

Environment

Flying snakes wiggle their bodies to glide down smoothly from trees

While most snakes undulate their bodies to propel themselves on land or water, the paradise tree snake, a species of flying snake, wiggles its body to stabilise itself as it glides through the air

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Health

Snake cells grown in the lab produce venom we could use as medicine

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Life

Giant toad looks and acts like a venomous snake to scare off predators

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Life

How squirrels use their tails to square up to deadly cobras

Regulars

An Amazonian snake has two types of venom that kill different prey

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