Snakes, Nature

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, and on most smaller land masses — exceptions include some large islands, such as Ireland and New Zealand, and many small islands of the Atlantic and central Pacific.

Eastern Indigo Snake

Expressive Snake Portraits by Ben Simon Rehn Capture Serpentine Elegance in Brilliant Hues — Colossal

Nature Notes: SOS Save Our Snakes — Northern Water Snake — Chocorua Lake Conservancy

Snake's worst day captured in very rare sighting of unusual animal behavior

Snakes of Colorado, Museum of Natural History

Why snakes probably aren't spreading the new China virus

Molecular basis of infrared detection by snakes

The Reptiles: Snakes, Saving Snakes, Nature

Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery by Greene, Harry W.

Snakes in Nature – For I am the Black Jaguar

The Nurturing Nature of Rattlesnakes – ASP

Sea snakes lose their stripes to deal with pollution

Snakes, facts and information