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Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with many more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica and on most islands. Fifteen families are currently recognized, comprising 456 genera and over 2,900 species.

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  • Apparently, snakes have some sort of super-potent properties in their fangs that enables them to penetrate the skin of a Kryptonian. Such was the case in Superman II, when a snake bit Ursa - who had already developed the power of superhuman durability due to exposure to Earth's yellow sun. We'll just chalk this up to a good old fashioned continuity flub.

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