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A snake skeleton consists primarily of the skull, vertebrae, and ribs, with only vestigial remnants of the limbs.
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* Bilaterus: A two-headed skeleton snake that must have both his skulls destroyed.
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Nevertheless the diet of an adult milk snake still primarily consists of rodents.
The 35th ( Paratrooper ) Brigade consists of three regular battalions, each bearing the name of a venomous snake.
It consists of images of badgers doing calisthenics, a toadstool in front of a tree, and a snake in the desert.
Because the smooth green snake's diet consists mainly of insects, insecticides put the snake at great risk in areas where they are applied.
This snake is known to be a powerful constrictor, and therefore its diet consists of mostly mice if domestic, and other rodents if wild.
Music venues, concert halls, and recording studios also use a thicker, hose-like cord called a snake cable ( or a " snake "), which consists of a bundle of many individual cables with patch bays at either end so that audio gear can be connected.
In fact, its venom is the most rapid-acting venom of any snake species and consists mainly of highly potent neurotoxins ; it also contains cardiotoxins, fasciculins, and calciseptine.
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The pocket snake whip is primarily a whip for occasional use, such as in loading cattle.
While the books are marketed primarily to children, are written with adult readers also in mind ; the series features references more likely to make sense to adults, such as references to Monty Python apparent in the series ( the Baudelaire children's uncle Monty has a large snake collection, including a python, allusions to the Self Defense Against Fresh Fruit sketch ).
The shehnai is thought to have been developed by improving upon the pungi ( a woodwind folk instrument used primarily for snake charming ).
Although bites from Sistrurus species are regarded as less dangerous to humans than those from Crotalus rattlesnakes, primarily due to their lower venom yield, every venomous snake bite should be considered serious and prompt medical treatment should always be sought.
Fruit bats and local birds have become scarce in modern times primarily due to the World War II-era introduction of the brown tree snake, which decimated the populations of local birds and threatens the fanihi population as well ; hunting them is now illegal.
When vervets are on the ground they respond to the eagle alarm call by looking up and running to cover, to leopard alarm calls primarily by looking up and running into a tree, and to the snake alarm call primarily by looking down.
When in trees vervets responded to the eagle alarm call by looking up and down and running out of trees, to the leopard alarm call by running higher in the tree and looking both up and down, and to the snake alarm call by looking primarily down.
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Milland had a tattoo on his upper right arm of a skull with a snake curled up on top of it with the tail of the snake sticking out through one of the eyes.
When he touched the horse's skull with his boot a snake slithered from the skull and bit him.
When he touched the horse's skull with his boot a snake slithered from the skull and bit him.
The snake skull shows the greatest degree of cranial kinesis, in order to allow the snake to swallow large prey items.
Often he would convey a moral or illustrate a motto: a snake lying coiled under grass ; a skull on plants in bloom.
The skull of a snake is a very complex structure, with numerous joints to allow the snake to swallow prey far larger than its head.
The typical snake skull has a solidly ossified braincase, with the separate frontal bones and the united parietal bones extending downward to the basisphenoid, which is large and extends forward into a rostrum extending to the ethmoidal region.
A hognose snake skull ( Heterodon nasicus ) Opisthoglyphous snakes ( rearward grooves ) possess weak venom injected by a pair of enlarged teeth at the back of the maxillae which normally angle backwards and are grooved to channel venom into the puncture.
It is considered to be the snake that most resembles the original and ancestral snake condition, such as a lizardlike skull
Walking over the grave of Faxi, he mocked the old prophecy, but tripped over the skull of a horse from which a snake appeared.
Golden and turquoise visions of the powerful snake god Quetzalcoatl adjoin primitive pictographs in which a buzzard and a skull, suggesting death, are carried on the backs of kneeling figures.
* In the Harry Potter series ( books and films ), Death Eaters ( Lord Voldemort's followers ) were branded with the Dark Mark, a snake slithering out of the mouth of a skull.
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His mock-up of the Alien was created using parts from an old Rolls Royce car, rib bones and the vertebrae from a snake, molded with plasticine.
It accomplished this through an unparalleled elongation of its vertebrae, and has been described as being the closest a whale ever came to a snake.
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Since breath is important to any movement of the spine and ribs, snake style is considered one of the main styles which eventually led to internal training.
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He heard their chattering, and then the sounds of hacking as they dismembered the snake right on the porch with wood axes.
She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.
The youth with the snake had a natural pride and joy of life which appealed to the woman.
Madame Lalaurie gestured with her riding crop toward the 20-year-old youth who was stomping and writhing with the king snake still draped over his bare shoulders.
She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer, after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for letting a snake loose in the schoolroom.
Felix Kopstein states that `` when the snake reaches its maturity it has already reached about its maximal length '', but goes on to cite the reticulate python as an exception, with maximum length approximately three times that at maturity.
The following information on snakes varying greatly in size ( but all with less than a 10-foot maximum ) shows, when considered with the foregoing, that there is probably no correlation between the length of a snake and the time required for it to mature.
The snake slid slowly and with great care from the new ridge the plow had made, into the furrow and did not go any further.
I pulled the throttle of the tractor in and out, hoping to frighten him with the noise, but the snake only flicked its black, forked tongue and faced the huge tractor wheel, without fright or concern.
The snake worked away very slowly and delicately and with a gorgeous kind of dignity and beauty, and he carried his head a little above the rolled clods.
I could see the hunched-up shoulders, the savage determination, the dance of his feet as he ground the snake with his heels, and the pirouette of his arms as he whipped at it with the stick.
These are long, cylindrical, limbless animals with a snake or worm-like form.
The only predators with some tolerance to the poison are certain populations of common garter snake ( Thamnophis sirtalis ).
In locations where both snake and salamander co-exist, the snakes have developed immunity through genetic changes and they feed on the amphibians with impunity.
Coevolution occurs with the newt increasing its toxic capabilities at the same rate as the snake further develops its immunity.
The display of potency from Aaron's rod had already been demonstrated in the presence of Pharaoh's magicians ; when Aaron's rod was thrown down to the ground it had turned into a snake, so Pharaoh's magicians performed the same act with their own rods.
* The scene in the forest of the hero shooting a " huge " beast with his bow and arrow while his men watch, and the men retrieve the body-a deer in the Aeneid, and a sea snake in Beowulf.
Great Blue Heron | Great blue heron with a snake
Dragons are usually shown in modern times with a body like a huge lizard, or a snake with two pairs of lizard-type legs, and able to emit fire from their mouths.
Heracles throttled a single snake in each hand and was found by his nurse playing with their limp bodies as if they were a child's toys.
Its name means " male water snake ", and it should not be confused with Hydra, a much larger constellation which represents a female water snake.
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