🐍🦴 #Snakes have spent 150 million years evolving #anatomy that allows them to eat everything from #fish eggs to #alligators.

Their lower jaw bones flare apart to accommodate prey much larger than their own heads. This lesson explains the extreme feeding strategies and toxin resistance that help these #animals thrive in almost any #environment.

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