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- ... that the lizard Trachylepis maculata is known only from three specimens of doubtful provenance collected in the 1800s?
- ... that the rough-scaled sea snake is highly venomous and every scale on its body is adorned with a spine?
- ... that Tom Crutchfield was instrumental in producing the first captive-bred albino Burmese pythons?
- ...that although the green anaconda is the modern world's largest snake at up to 9 m (30 ft) long and 227 kg (500 lb), the extinct Titanoboa could be up to 12.8 m (42 ft) long and 1,135 kg (2,500 lb; 1.1 long tons)?
- ... that apart from eating smaller lizards and amphibians, the Central American coral snake also feeds on other snakes?