To test the snakes’ mouth-opening capabilities ... and the evolutionary trade-offs involved in being great at eating eggs but bad at eating just about anything else. Dr. Jayne said that studying ...

compared with prey that other snakes eat, such as rodents, “an egg is super short,” he says. “You have a limited ability to have a very long egg. But if you get your mouth wider, then you ...

Although it's skinnier than other snakes that opportunistically eat eggs, such as the rat snake ... along with a nearly toothless soft mouth that allows it to maintain a grip on smooth eggshells.

Bruce Jayne via the University of Cincinnati A tiny egg-eating African snake ... spit up the shells. The snakes are also almost entirely toothless with a soft mouth that helps them grip smooth ...

Snakes have been known to eat eggs. Rat snakes ... and back out of its mouth. Snakes swallow their prey whole. They are able to swallow objects that appear much larger than their own body by ...

Despite being tragically misunderstood by most people, snakes are fascinating, diverse, and intelligent animals who deserve ...

"Having teeth would cause [the egg's contents] to splash out [of its mouth] if it's punctured ... extreme gape evolved so that the snake could specialize in eating prey that has "a modest amount ...

One of the most common snakes throughout North and Central America, garter snakes (Thamnophis) are skilled hunters that feed ...

“Beautiful creature [sic]" “Egg-eating snakes don't have teeth ... In the case of an egg, the snake carefully maneuvers it into its mouth and gradually swallows it whole.

In the video, the bottom half of the rattlesnake can be seen protruding from the kingsnake's mouth ... turtle eggs, lizards and other snakes—it has even been observed eating members of their ...

Some snakes prefer to eat amphibians, like frogs and arthropods, like spiders, or everything from ant and termite eggs to soft-bodied earthworms. Others prefer mammals, like mice, all the way up to ...