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Facts About Cobras

December 18, 2014 | Reference

Cobras are large, venomous snakes with a trademark hood. They hiss and spit and can raise the upper part of their bodies high enough to look you in the eye.
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Rattlesnake Facts

December 12, 2014 | Reference

Rattlesnakes are found throughout North and South America. Their distinctive rattle warns intruders to stay away!
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Copperhead Snakes: Facts, Bites & Babies

November 19, 2014 | Reference

Copperhead snakes are common in North America, and have the distinction of biting more people in the United States than any other snake.
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Biggest Venomous Snake Ever Revealed in New Fossils

November 06, 2014 | Article

The largest venomous snake ever known once slithered through the grasslands of what is today northern Greece some 4 million years ago, creating a mystery about how the 60-pound beast reached its gargantuan size.
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How Sex Organs Get Their Start

November 05, 2014 | Article

New research shows how external genitals arose from very different starting places for reptiles and mammals.
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Animal Sex: How Snakes Do It

October 27, 2014 | Article

Snake sex involves mating balls, battles similar to arm-wrestling and, sometimes, asexual reproduction.
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Snake Robots! Slithering Machines Could Aid Search-and-Rescue Efforts

October 09, 2014 | Article

One snake's ability to shimmy up slippery sand dunes made it the perfect subject for a new study aimed at getting robots out of the lab and into the real world.
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Explainer: Why Do Snakes Flick Their Tongues?

July 31, 2014 | Article

Theories explaining the forked tongues of snakes have been around for thousands of years.
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Snake Facts & Types of Snakes

June 20, 2014 | Reference

There are more than 3,000 species of snakes in the world and there is at least one type of snake on every continent except Antarctica.
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Centipede Bursts from Snake's Stomach

April 16, 2014 | Article

A group of researchers discovered a dead nose-horned viper with a centipede's head sticking out of its ruptured abdomen. After a post-mortem, the scientists think it's possible that the centipede quite literally eviscerated the snake from the inside out.
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