Category: Snakes
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I haven't been bitten by a rattlesnake, except in nightmares. Once in southeast Arizona it was close. For some reason I was about to clamber up a small rock face. It was hot, and insects were buzzing, and it suddenly struck my companion that one insect buzzing on the rock face might actually be…
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One day I saw a giant sea turtle bite my sister. We were snorkeling in Hawaii and were suddenly in the midst of a number of turtles. They were feeding on seaweed. I looked over at my sister, and saw her beaming at a turtle from a respectful distance. Unnoticed by her, another turtle had…
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Late in the Acts of the Apostles, Saul “Paul” of Tarsus, afterward St. Paul, is arrested in Jerusalem. He wisely requests a change of venue to Rome. There's a shipwreck on the way, and they are cast ashore in Malta (called Melita in Acts). The “barbarous” Maltese kindly invite the 276 castaways to warm themselves…
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Paleontologists found the bones of a huge snake in a coal mine in Colombia. A huge, huge snake, more than a ton of boa. It lived back in the Palaeocene. They found it last year, but it hit the news more recently with the publication of an article in Nature. They're calling the enormous snake…
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