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English: Star of life, blue version. Represents the Rod of Asclepius, with a snake around it, on a 6-branch star shaped as the cross of 3 thick 3:1 rectangles. Design: The logo is basically unicolor, most often a slate or medium blue, but this design uses a slightly lighter shade of blue for the outer outline of the cross, and the outlines of the rod and of the snake.
Gadsden flag; Use: Banner: Proportion: Varies, generally 2:3: Adopted: December 20, 1775: Design: A yellow banner charged with a yellow spiraled timber rattlesnake facing toward the hoist sitting upon a patch of lush green grass, with thirteen rattles, representing the thirteen colonies, the words Dont Tread on Me positioned below the snake in black font
An older snake may shed its skin only once or twice a year, but a younger, still-growing snake, may shed up to four times a year. [18] The discarded skin gives a perfect imprint of the scale pattern and it is usually possible to identify the snake if this discard is reasonably complete and intact.
Clouded brille of a colubrid nearing moulting Clear brille of the same snake - 20 days earlier Exuvia of grass snake Natrix natrix , showing brille scales The brille (also called the ocular scale , eye cap or spectacle ) is the layer of transparent, immovable disc-shaped skin or scale covering the eyes of some animals for protection, especially ...
This snake was found on the edge of a creek in Oklahoma. Agkistrodon piscivorus is a species of venomous snake , a pit viper in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae . It is one of the world's few semiaquatic vipers (along with the Florida cottonmouth ), and is native to the Southeastern United States . [ 5 ]
The snake returns in the Book of Exodus when Moses turns his staff into a snake as a sign of God's power, and later when he makes the Nehushtan, a bronze snake on a pole that when looked at cured the people of bites from the snakes that plagued them in the desert.
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Image:Usa-state-boundaries-lower48+2.png – USA state outlines, Hawaii and Alaska displaced, 2005x1289px, black on transparent. Image:usa-state-boundaries-1000.png – USA state outlines, true positions, 1000 px wide, black on white