those fresh water snakes got nuthin' on me!
| Description: | Though they are elapides, like cobras, I decided to dedicate a section to sea snakes. Sea snakes are extroadinarily venomous, just about the most in the world. But they are as big in diameter as a no. 3 pencil, and their venom sacs would not house a mite. Most sea snakes have vertically flat tails, and these serve as rudders underwater. Of course sea snakes breath air, and have to surface every ten minutes or so. Sea snakes eat small fish and inhabit corals and the inner edges of the open sea. They can go extremely long periods of time without eating, even for a snake. They are so widespread because they will sometimes sit on a peice of drift wood and, well, nonstop service to anywhere. Though kraits, a group of sea snakes, have their scientific name beggining "coulubr," sea snakes are almost opposites of coulubrids. |
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