I think snakes are fascinating, however I know so little about them! There are only three species of snake in the UK. Do you know where they are most commonly found?
They are found on every continent except Antarctica. Some exceptions include Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, New Zealand, and the Hawaiian archipelago.
Interesting! I guess they haven't learned how to get to Ireland from the British mainland yet! I wonder what the oldest snake remains ever found were?
I'm not sure but many snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors. This enables them to swallow prey much larger than their head.
Ah yes, seeing them eat eggs is almost freaky. Are there any other animals who have that ability?
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
land masses; exceptions include some large islands, such as Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, the Hawaiian archipelago, and the islands of New Zealand, and many small islands of the Atlantic and central Pacific oceans. Additionally, sea snakes are widespread throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans. More than 20 families are currently recognized, comprising about 520 genera and about 3,600 species. They range in size from the tiny, -long Barbados thread snake to the reticulated python of in length. The fossil species "Titanoboa cerrejonensis" was long.