Sentences with phrase «snake species»

While there are between 2,000 and 4,000 Golden Lancehead snakes on the island — one of the largest population densities of any snake species — it is actually a critically endangered species.

Unlike the daunting snake species found on the Australian mainland, the snakes on Fraser Island tend to be on the more inoffensive side.

The Lawnwood Snake Sanctuary aims to educate visitors about hundreds of different snake species, from tiny to mammoth, and...

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These highly abundant amphibians are a food source for many small snake species and baby snakes.

While all three snake species are incredibly beautiful, you have to be respectful of their space and aware of your surroundings.

Carrying a variety of snake species can pique customers» interest and allow retailers to offer something unique.

Most of the common snake species around Fogg Dam are actually MORE abundant now than they were in the years before cane toads arrived, based on a huge amount of information gathered by Dr Greg Brown in his nightly surveys (walking across the Fogg dam wall and recording snake numbers just about every night, for 5 years before and after toads arrived!).

The best evidence on this evolutionary process comes from Dr Ben Phillips» studies on red - bellied blacksnakes, a venomous snake species from eastern Australia.

The scale of this newfound ability has never before been seen in other snake species.

«Puff adders, the ultimate ambush predator: One of Africa's most venomous and abundant snake species hides from predator and prey by camouflaging smell.»

«We asked the meerkats and dogs to scent - match scent samples collected from puff adders and other snake species.

«The jury is still out regarding why populations of some snake species appear to be declining whilst others appear to be relatively stable,» says Reading.

They know they have these snake species, but they don't know if they are really rare or just hard to find.»

The results left no doubts that the specimens belonged to three undescribed fishing snake species.

We don't know every snake species that is affected.

The subset of genes each snake species retained varies.

That information is vital to DoD resource managers who need to quantify densities of threatened or endangered snake species.

«Three new fishing snake species fished out of the Andean slopes in South America.»

Strikes of all three snake species lasted less than a tenth of a second, about half the time it takes for a human to blink.

They first pooled together information about colors in related modern snake species in the same family, Colubridae (which contains 70 % of all known snakes): specifically, which combinations of pigment cells produce which colors.

They also integrated these data with modern samples to create a genetic family tree, or phylogeny, that maps the evolutionary relationships of various snake species.

In a cross-cultural study comparing students in Prague with tribespeople in Papua New Guinea, Frynta's team found that the two groups think the very same snake species are beautiful.

This is what happened to Colin Strine from Sakaerat Environmental Research Station in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, during a field trip with his team to a biodiversity hotspot in the north - east of the country where at least 176 snake species are found.

Existing antivenins only act against one snake species.

«It may be that this process isn't as important in snakes,» he said, but he noted that «a lot more work has to be done on looking at really closely related snake species before we can say for sure.»

ONCE BITTEN Forensic tests of bite marks might reveal the guilty snake species — such as this cobra — in cases where patients aren't sure what attacked them, offering a bit of clarity that can speed treatment.

That's because tiger snake antivenom has an extraordinary level of cross reactivity against other snake species, and can therefore neutralise the lethal effects on humans in snakebite cases.

Their paper in the Journal of Heredity notes that the fish does make up the bulk of the 2,000 species of venomous vertebrates; about 500 snake species are poisonous.

In conclusion, the scientists note that the rarity of the observed snake species, especially the genus, where the new serpent belongs, accounts for the unclear species - boundaries as well as for the myriad of undescribed species.

Although the pythons» threat to people is low, previous studies have shown that this invasive snake species is having a negative effect on many of the native mammals in the South Florida Everglades.

Extremely rare and hidden in the forests of the Andes, there are still new snake species left to find.

There's so little known about so many snake species that scientists can't say how bad the situation might be.

With the discovery earlier this month of the disease in a young broad - banded watersnake in Louisiana, snake fungal disease has now been found in a total of 14 snake species and 16 states.

MIAMI (Reuters)- A U.S. proposal to ban the import and interstate sale of boa constrictors and four other snake species prompted protests from exotic pet owners and concern among Florida wildlife regulators who fear it could lead to more reptiles being released into the wild.

«The Aztec treasure unearthed: New earth snake species discovered in Mexico.»

So they compared the pupil shape of 127 Australian snake species with Shine's data on their hunting behaviour and the time of day that they are most active.

Antivenom can work but its efficacy is largely restricted to the snake species used in its manufactures and is often ineffective in treating snakebite by different, even closely related species.

Each venomous snake species produces a unique venom, a mixture of around 50 - 200 toxic proteins and protein fragments that co-evolve with the typical prey of the snake, such as the smaller reptiles eaten by the eastern coral snake or the rodents preferred by rattlesnakes.

The results of a large - scale survey of venom variation in the two snake species, published January 8, 2015 in the journal Genetics, challenge common assumptions in venom evolution research, provide crucial information for rattlesnake conservation, and will help coral snake antivenom development.

«Clearly, venom evolution in these two snake species has been shaped by different forces.

Common garter snakes, along with four other snake species, have evolved the ability to eat extremely toxic species such as the rough - skinned newt — amphibians that would kill a human predator — thanks to at least 100 million years of evolution, according to Joel McGlothlin, an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

Not exact matches

While the snake was of average size for a fully grown male, the largest eastern brown the catchers found previously was only 0.4 metres longer and then maximum recorded size for the species is 2.4 metres.

I bet you believe in talking snakes, that ribs can become women, that Jonah was swallowed by a sea monster and somehow managed to survive in its stomach for days, and that Noah somehow managed to successfully collect and save two of each of the many millions of species spread across the entire globe.

Yes now she can babble mindlessly about talking snakes, talking fiery bushes, big boats that held 250,000 species of beetle along with wooly mammoths and snow leopards, guys that floated into the clouds in front of everyone (yet somehow the Jews and Arabs still just don't buy that he was the saviour), parted water / wine to water / walking on water / healing water, food from the sky....

«Talking snakes», 500 yr old men and one of them called «Noah» with an ark who somehow magically saved all the animals (LOL), «Adam and Eve» in the «Garden of Eden» even though all the proof shows that the human species began in S. East Africa., a planet and universe that was supposedly created in 6 days 6 thousand years ago... thanks, but I have all the proof I need to NOT believe in your twisted book of fairy tales.

As Dawkins notes, if we filled every so called «gap» in the fossil record with an intermediate species, the «Talking Snake» crowd would just claim that the number of gaps had just doubled.

Species: Chinense Origin: Bangladesh Heat: Nuclear Add to my growing list Naga Morich meaning «snake or serpent Chile is an apt name for this ferociously hot variety as eating even the smallest slither of one of these pods is described by some as like drinking cobra venom!!.

I tend to believe that the name cobra references several species of snakes, most of which are in the venomous snake family Elapidae.

With more than 40 living animal species, the Nature Museum is one of the only museums where you can get up close and hands on with turtles, snakes, insects, and more!