30 Facts About Snakes That Will Rattle Your Mind
Just because you cut off the head of a snake doesn’t mean the snake is done. That chopped-off head can still bite and unleash a huge amount of venom. Want to make sure you never see a snake? Move to Ireland, Iceland, New Zealand or one of the poles, North or South. No snakes live in those places. Snake charmers have clocked 725 species of poisonous snakes. In that group, only 250 are lethal to humans with just one bite. Good to know. Big pythons and boa snakes have traces of back legs left over from millions of years of evolution when snakes started out as land lizards. As if we didn’t have enough to worry about. It can take a snake up to five days to digest its last meal. With bigger snakes like an anaconda, that digestion period is weeks rather than days, the same amount of time after an Italian Thanksgiving dinner. Trust me. The Mongoose is one of those rare animals that is immune to a snake’s venom. Go, Mongoose! Record holder for biggest variety of snake goes ...