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Is your locust an invertebrate or a vertebrate? Locusts are also Arthropods. These are all of the small invertebrates with jointed legs and a hard skin called a cuticle.
vertebrates/invertebrates
A | B |
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cricket | invertebrate |
swordfish | vertebrate |
hawk | vertebrate |
earthworm | invertebrate |
Animals without backbones are called invertebrates. They range from well known animals such as jellyfish, corals, slugs, snails, mussels, octopuses, crabs, shrimps, spiders, butterflies and beetles to much less well known animals such as flatworms, tapeworms, siphunculids, sea-mats and ticks.
And Rabaiotti did find that fart answer for her brother: yes, snakes fart, too. Sonoran Coral Snakes that live across the Southwestern United States and Mexico use their farts as a defence mechanism, sucking air into their “butt” (it’s actually called a cloaca) and then pushing it back out to keep predators away.
A Snake–With Legs! Snakes don’t have legs, right? Wrong–look closely! Pythons and boa constrictors have tiny hind leg bones buried in muscles toward their tail ends.
It’s all because of something called the Sonic hedgehog gene. candidate Francisca Leal, found that a series of genetic mutations impacting the Sonic hedgehog gene likely caused snakes to lose their limbs around 100 million years ago during the Upper Cretaceous period.
There are many cases of icchadhari snakes who were reborn. Some years ago, a young girl claimed that in her last life she was one such snake. To take revenge, snakes often use their icchadhari powers. Other icchadharis are snakes during daytime and take whatever form they wish — usually of a human — at night.
About 150 million years ago, snakes roamed about on well-developed legs. Now researchers say a trio of mutations in a genetic switch are why those legs eventually disappeared. Taken together, the mutations in the enhancer of a gene known as “Sonic hedgehog” disrupt a genetic circuit that drives limb growth in snakes.
Why don’t snakes have arms? Snakes actually used to have limbs; they evolved out of them. But the snakes evolved to move stealthily and burrow quickly by discarding their arms and legs. Evolution has made snakes into the slithery creatures that we know them as.
Snakes used to wander the Earth on legs about 150 million years ago, before they shifted from strut to slither. Some snakes, such as pythons, retain tiny vestiges of legs in the form of two small bumps on either side of their pelvis.
“Snakes who eat other snakes (like King and Rat) will confuse their own tail for another snake and will end up eating itself,” writes John Allen Gordon-Levitt Gerlach. Snakes have small brains and are more reactive than proactive, so this movement could catch their eye and make them think ‘prey’.”
In a nutshell, a snake can commit suicide by biting itself, provided that it bites itself in such a way that the venom directly enters the bloodstream.
You won’t have to search hard to find stomach-churning pictures of snakes swallowing large animals and family pets. In his classic book, “The Little Prince”, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry depicts a boa constrictor eating an elephant, not to be mistaken for a hat. So no, an anaconda cannot kill an elephant.