Snake

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Snakes are elongate legless carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with many more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. In order to accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs 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.

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  • Roland Burris is a lying snake

    Chicago Tribune 22 hours, 58 minutes ago

    ... he gets to call himself a senator and can boast that he's never been indicted. But to most Illinoisans, Burris will always be remembered as a lying snake.

  • Snakes star in jewelry line from Pitt and Jolie

    Reuters 3 days, 13 hours ago

    The "Protector" collection, designed for luxury British jeweler Asprey, is a range of gold jewelry and silver accessories that features snakes, considered a ...

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