I hate spiders, but I like snakes. They are on every continent except Antarctica, which makes sense.
I thought St Patrick drove all the snakes from Ireland too? Or is that a myth?
That is just a myth. There are even some legless lizards that look like snakes but they have some feature that snakes don't have.
Legless lizards! How bizarre! I really don't like snakes. I could never keep one as a pet. You?
I don't think I would want one as a pet, but they are interesting. Legless lizards are more common in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
I guess that explains why I've never seen one: I'm on the other side of the world in Canada. Happy to have never met one!
Snake
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. 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. 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. Some species
retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. Legless lizards resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae).
Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, and on most smaller