Some Interesting Facts About The Snakes
Snakes are elongated, limbless, 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.
1. There are over 3000 kinds of snakes in the world. They are present in every continent except Antarctica
2. Snakes use their tongue to smell
3. The Black Mamba is the fastest snake in the world and can move up to 12mph (20kmph)
4. The smallest snakes in the world are brahminy blind snakes which can be as short as 2 ½ inches long. they are often mistaken for earthworms
5. Snakes, like other reptiles, are cold-blooded. This means that their body temperature changes in according to the temperature of their environment, unlike warm-blooded animals whose temperature remains constant. Snakes which live in colder climates will therefore hibernate in winter as it would otherwise be too cold for them to survive
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