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Snakes show signs of self-recognition in a smell-based ‘mirror test’

A garter snake flicks its tongue to explore by smell Vince F/Alamy Some snakes seem to respond differently to their…

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Should everyone start eating snakes to save the planet?

Pythons are farmed for meat in South-East Asia Dan Natusch What kind of meat is the most sustainable? According to…

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Snakes do it faster, better: How a group of scaly, legless lizards hit the evolutionary jackpot

More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small,…

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Why are there so many snakes?

In a square-rectangle sort of way, snakes are technically lizards, but for semantics’ sake and because snakes are so distinctive,…

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Why do some lizards and snakes have horns?

Horns aren’t just for rhinos and cattle. A fair number of snake and lizard species have heads adorned with spiky,…

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Entertainment

Korea Box Office: ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Opens on Top, as ‘Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songs and Snakes’ Struggles

Mystery-horror film “Five Nights at Freddy’s” landed on top of the South Korean cinema box office. But fellow new release…

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Lifestyle

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: Who Is Tigris Snow?

The release of “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” the “Hunger Games” prequel, is just around the corner, and it’s…

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