The toughest snake on Earth lives in central Africa and eats baby rodents

Mongabay
Dec 19, 2017, 12:10 pm170 pts
The fury of rodent mothers may have given rise to the toughest of all snakes. The skin of the Calabar burrowing python (Calabaria reinhardtii), a one-meter-long snake native to equatorial Africa, may be thicker and harder to pierce than any other snake in the world, according to a study due to be published in…

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