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The scaly-foot is snake-like in appearance, up to 80 cm in length with a noticeable "keel" or ridge on the top. Variable in colours and pattern, it occasionally is grey with black spots or [1] sometimes coppery brown with a grey tail. Other patterns and variations occur. Prominent limb flaps may be seen on close inspection, hence the name ...
This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. Note that the snakes are grouped by name, and in some cases the grouping may have no scientific basis.
Tetrapodophis (Greek meaning "four-footed snake") is an extinct genus of lizard from the Early Cretaceous aged Crato Formation of Brazil. It has an elongated snake-like body, with four disproportionately short limbs.
Eupodophis was a marine snake that lived in the Mediterranean Tethys Ocean.It had a laterally compressed body and short, paddle-like tail. The vertebrae and ribs of Eupodophis are pachyostotic, or thickened, as an adaptation to a marine lifestyle.
Draconcopedes (snake-feet) – "Snake-feet are large and powerful serpents, with faces very like those of human maidens and necks ending in serpent bodies" as described by Vincent of Beauvais. [7] Gajamina – A creature with the head of an elephant and body of a fish. Merlion – A creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish.
A video shared online shows the scale of these 20-foot-long (6.1-meter-long) reptiles as one of the researchers, Dutch biologist Freek Vonk, swims alongside a giant 200-kilo (441-pound) specimen.
Widely published data of specimens reported to have been several feet longer are not verified. [7] At her death, a Burmese named "Baby" was the heaviest snake recorded in the world at the time at 182.8 kg (403 lb), [7] much heavier than any wild snake ever measured. [15] Her length was measured at 5.74 m (18 ft 10 in) circa 1999. [7]
This snake is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s. Learn about a slithery venomous hitchhiker from Ecuador that caught employees at a New Hampshire grocery store by surprise.