snakes

Back in April in the Mojave Desert I answered the call of nature in the middle of the night behind a bush that had what I thought was a plastic bag caught in it and blowing in the wind. It turned out to be a Mojave Desert Sidewinder rattlesnake about 2 feet from my rear end. He was mad but I couldn't blame him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2007/11/snakes_in_the_grass.shtml

Titanoboa made anaconda look like a garter snake
http://images.theglobeandmail.com/archives/RTGAM/images/20090205/wsnake05/0205snake800big.jpg

being made into a sci-fi channel movie... now.

The researchers named the snake Titanoboa. From the size of its vertebrae they estimate it was 13 metres long and a metre wide, which means it would have had trouble squeezing through a modern doorway. It weighed 1,140 kilograms.

im imagining this thing wiggling across a highway or spiralling itself up an elavator shaft or maybe wrapping itself around the town square christmas tree and i think we should bring them back, through science, just for all the laffs they could bring

san francisco garter snake. best snake

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4038/4659452478_3275466af9_b.jpg

i rest my case

bright colors like that are usually warnings to potential predators: beware, danger! very sneaky of a garter snake to look like that.