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    Snakes are elongated, legless reptiles that can be distinguished from lizards by their lack of eyelids and ears. They have highly mobile jaws that allow them to swallow prey larger than their heads. Snakes' organs are arranged one in front of the other to fit in their narrow bodies. Snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica and range in size from 10 cm thread snakes to 6.95 meter reticulated pythons.

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    Snakes are elongated, legless reptiles that can be distinguished from lizards by their lack of eyelids and ears. They have highly mobile jaws that allow them to swallow prey larger than their heads. Snakes' organs are arranged one in front of the other to fit in their narrow bodies. Snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica and range in size from 10 cm thread snakes to 6.95 meter reticulated pythons.

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    Snakes are elongated, legless reptiles that can be distinguished from lizards by their lack of eyelids and ears. They have highly mobile jaws that allow them to swallow prey larger than their heads. Snakes' organs are arranged one in front of the other to fit in their narrow bodies. Snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica and range in size from 10 cm thread snakes to 6.95 meter reticulated pythons.

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    Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes[2] 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 overlappingscales.
    Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors,
    enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To
    accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in
    front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some
    species retain a pelvic girdlewith a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca.
    Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, and on most smaller land
    masses exceptions include some large islands, such as Ireland and New Zealand, and
    many small islands of the Atlantic and central Pacific.[3] Additionally, sea snakes are
    widespread throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans. More than 20 families are currently
    recognized, comprising about 500 generaand about 3,400 species.[4][5] They range in size
    from the tiny, 10 cm-long thread snake to the reticulated python of up to 6.95 meters (22.8 ft)
    in length.[6] The fossil species Titanoboa cerrejonensis was 13 meters (43 ft) long.[7] Snakes
    are thought to have evolved from either burrowing or aquatic lizards, perhaps during
    the Jurassic period, with the earliest known fossils dating to between 143 and 167 Ma ago.
    [8]

    The diversity of modern snakes appeared during the Paleocene period (c 66 to 56 Ma

    ago). The oldest preserved descriptions of s

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