About 790 results for ‘Snake’
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Snake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes 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 overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with many 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 girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, 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. More than 20 families are currently recognized, comprising about 500 genera and about 3,400 species. They range in size from the tiny, 10 cm-long thread snake to the Reticulated python of up to 8.7 meters (29 ft) in length. The fossil species Titanoboa cerrejonensis was 15 meters (49 ft) long. Snakes are thought to have evolved from either burrowing or aquatic lizards during the mid-Cretaceous period, and the earliest known fossils date to around 112 Ma ago. The diversity of modern snakes appeared during the Paleocene period (c 66 to 56 Ma ago). Most species are nonvenomous and those that have venom use it primarily to kill and subdue prey rather than for self-defense. Some possess venom potent enough to cause painful injury or death to humans. Nonvenomous snakes either swallow prey alive or kill by constriction.
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Paleolithic
- Portable art
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- Designation:
- os indéterminé (oiseau)
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- Portrayed subject:
- Snake
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- Date:
- Magdalenian
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Serpent
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- Field(s):
- Ancient Greece
- Archaeology
- Ceramic
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- Portrayed subject:
- Snake
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- Date:
- 8th century BC
- Geometric art
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Paleolithic
- Portable art
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- Designation:
- ciseau
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- Portrayed subject:
- Snake
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- Date:
- Magdalenian
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Autel de Volusia Arbuscula
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- Field(s):
- Ancient Rome
- Archaeology
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Snake
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- Date:
- 1st century
- Ancient Rome
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- Designation:
- sautoir
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- Portrayed subject:
- Armour
- Crown (headgear)
- Flag
- Maltese cross
- Sceptre
- Snake
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CANTIQUE SPIRITUEL, / SUR DIFFERENS AIRS. / ORAISON A JES...
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Calvary
- Crown (headgear)
- Flower
- Mary (mother of Jesus)
- Snake
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- Date:
- 18th century
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JESUS SUR LA CROIX (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Apple
- Bone
- Calvary
- Fortification
- Jerusalem
- Jesus, King of the Jews
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Planche de saintetés (titre factice)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Angel
- Bishop
- Catherine of Alexandria
- Child
- Crown (headgear)
- Dais
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Planche de saintetés (titre factice)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Angel
- Bishop
- Catherine of Alexandria
- Child
- Crown (headgear)
- Dais
- …
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- Date:
- 19th century
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STE. BARBE. VIERGE MAT. STE. RAYNE VIERGE... STE. CATHERI...
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Catherine of Alexandria
- Christian cross
- City
- Conflagration
- Dragon
- Margaret the Virgin
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- Date:
- 18th century
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SAINTE JULIENNE, / VIERGE ET MARTYRE. (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ancient history
- Decapitation
- Executioner
- Fire
- Prison
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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SAINTE MARIE, REINE DU CIEL ET DE LA TERRE (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Altar
- Angel
- Crown (headgear)
- Dais
- Madonna (art)
- Man
- …
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Designation:
- mors
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- Portrayed subject:
- Snake
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- Date:
- 19th century
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