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

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

“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.

The egg-eating snake can open its mouth wide enough for it to gobble entire eggs and, on occasion, the adult members of other species. Alyss encountered this creature at a local reptile centre and ...

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 ...