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- Venomous snake is any of a large and diverse number of snakes that are capable of injecting venom (modified saliva) into another organism, essentially ...11 KB (1,696 words) - 17:02, 3 May 2023
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- Venomous snake is any of a large and diverse number of snakes that are capable of injecting venom (modified saliva) into another organism, essentially ...11 KB (1,696 words) - 17:02, 3 May 2023
- Mamba is the common name for any of the several fast-moving, venomous African snakes comprising the elapid genus Dendroaspis, characterized by ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- Cobra is the common name for a number of Asian and African snakes in several genera of the family Elapidae, characterized by smooth scales, large ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 07:35, 14 January 2023
- Rattlesnake is the common name for any of the venomous snakes comprising the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the pit viper subfamily Crotalinae ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- Coral snake, or coralsnake, is the common name for often colorful venomous snakes belonging to several genera of the Elapidae family. Traditionally ...24 KB (3,201 words) - 19:02, 14 January 2023
- Viperidae, whose members are commonly known as vipers, is a family of venomous snakes characterized by a head that is distinct from the body ...12 KB (1,886 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- Elapidae, whose members are known as elapids, is a family of venomous snakes characterized by hollow, permanently erect, relatively short fangs ...24 KB (3,370 words) - 21:57, 24 December 2021
- Viperinae is a subfamily of terrestrial and arboreal venomous vipers (family Viperidae) characterized by a lack of the heat-sensing pit organs ...13 KB (1,863 words) - 00:46, 18 November 2022
- Snake charming refers to the practice of hypnotizing a snake by playing an instrument. A typical performance may also include handling the snakes ...17 KB (2,596 words) - 21:41, 30 January 2023
- Anaconda is the common term for any member of four species of semi-aquatic boas (Boidae family) of South America comprising the genus Eunectes ...16 KB (2,471 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- A toxin is a chemical substance that is capable of causing injury, illness, or death to an organism (poison) and that is produced by living cells ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 04:49, 1 May 2023
- Herpetology (from Greek: ἑρπετόν, herpeton, "creeping animal" and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the branch of ...7 KB (1,096 words) - 14:08, 16 July 2024
- Crotalinae, whose members are commonly known as pit vipers (or pitvipers, pit-vipers), is a subfamily of venomous vipers (family Viperidae) characterized ...19 KB (2,781 words) - 19:53, 7 May 2020
- Snake is any of the numerous elongate, limbless, scaled, carnivorous reptiles comprising the suborder Serpentes (or Ophidia) of the order Squamata ...54 KB (8,016 words) - 05:10, 13 October 2022
- Category:Public color = pink | name = Fish image = [[image:herring2.jpg|Atlantic herring]] | caption = Atlantic herring, Clupea harengusThe most ...18 KB (2,549 words) - 06:51, 17 May 2021
- Python is the common name for any of the non-venomous constricting snakes comprising the Old World family Pythonidae, characterized by paired ...15 KB (2,266 words) - 15:06, 2 July 2022
- In Egyptian mythology, Apep (also spelled Apepi, and Aapep, or Apophis in Greek) was a serpent demon who represented the forces of chaos, death ...22 KB (3,545 words) - 06:00, 11 August 2023
- Serpent (from Latin: serpens, serpentis) is a word used in mythological or religious contexts to denote a being that looks like a snake but has ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- Centipede ("hundred legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Chilopoda, comprising species with long, flattened ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 23:51, 3 December 2023
- Meerkat is the common name for a small, gregarious, burrowing mammal, Suricata suricatta, of the traditional mongoose family Herpestidae, characterized ...15 KB (2,314 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
