Snake discovery7/5/2023 ![]() And then, once a snake starts to ingest what is often a large animal relative to its own size, the rib cage has to spread wide open. When a snake bites and grabs prey, the front part of its body is usually completely engaged in subduing the meal by constricting it. ![]() The part of the lungs closest to the head is where gas exchange seems to take place, as it is rich in blood vessels, while the part of the lungs closer to the snake's tail is more like an empty bag. Like the rest of their bodies, the lungs of a snake are long and stretch down much of the snake's length. "We see just particular regions of ribs get activated and other regions are completely quiet and don't move." A discovery with a tiny helmet and a blood pressure cuffīoa constrictors have more than two hundred pairs of ribs running down the length of their bodies, and normally breathe by using muscles to rotate their rigid rib bones and pump air in and out. "I just found it remarkable that they had such fine control," says the study's author John Capano, who studies biomechanics at Brown University. What researchers observed is that the snakes could easily shift to using different sets of ribs to draw in air like a bellows. That's according to a new study that used an inflated blood pressure cuff to immobilize different parts of boa constrictors' bodies while simultaneously doing X-ray scans to monitor their ribs' movement. When the scaley coils closest to the snake's head are super busy squeezing its dinner to death, the reptile can simply change how it breathes so that it uses ribs and muscles farther down the length of its body. Snakes that constrict and then swallow enormous prey have evolved a way to keep themselves from suffocating while they do it. Vitor Marigo / Aurora Photos/Getty Images/Aurora Open Doubt I’ll sleep ever again,” someone else said.A boa constrictor feeds on a lizard in Tijuca Forest National Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “Well I’m never sleeping again,” another said. The Eastern Brown snake was collected from the home by Zachery’s Snake and Reptile Relocation. “This is what nightmares are made of,” one wrote in response to the photos. Hundreds of locals were mortified at the sight and vowed to never head to bed without checking under the covers again. ![]() It had its head raised and stared back at the camera as though it was upset to have been woken. ![]() ![]() An alarming bedroom encounter with a huge snake has prompted a chilling warning after the intruder was caught out mid-nap. The snake appeared to have been disturbed from a warm nap at the time of the photos, with part of its body still tucked beneath the blanket at the end of the bed. “Check the bed carefully tonight! This eastern brown snake safely relocated!” the snake catcher wrote along with the photos. The Eastern Brown snake was collected from the home by Zachery’s Snake and Reptile Relocation, which shared chilling photos of the animal lazing on the bed to Facebook. The warning came after an enormous brown snake had to be removed from someone’s bed in Kalbar, west of the Gold Coast in Queensland, on Monday. A horrifying snake discovery has sparked warnings for people to thoroughly check under the covers before bed to avoid getting an alarming surprise. ![]()
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