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However, one species of sea snake—the turtle-headed sea snake (Emydocephalus annulatus)—is losing its captivating stripes.

No human deaths by a yellow-bellied sea snake have been documented.

But if you persist, you get a Gyarados — an amazing flying sea snake.

They can swim on their own (like a real sea snake), or use thrusters for propulsion.

If you want to find a sea snake, you have to go out searching for one.

Pollution.By sea snake standards, the turtle-headed sea snakes found across Indo-Pacific coral reefs are unusual.

Despite the close distance to Australia, there are no snakes in New Zealand, bar the occasional sea snake.

Forrister played his clip of a highly venomous but shy banded sea snake undulating into a rocky crevice.

Scientists report a normally-banded species of sea snake is evolving darker skin to get rid of manmade pollutants.

Its flexible, articulated "body" allows the sea snake to be configured for different tasks and easily navigate complex areas of machinery.

Photographer Dave Johnson took a picture of this banded sea snake as it rested alone in the sand in Indonesia's Lembeh Strait.

Other options in the Aster collection include tangerine sea snake skin ($7,400), raspberry pink ostrich leather ($7,900), and 'diamond black' alligator leather ($10,100).

I mean the hunks of sea snake served under clear jelly at M. Manze, one of the last surviving eel houses in London.

Now, engineers at the technology companies Eelume and Kongsberg Maritime have partnered with oil and gas corporation Statoil to mechanize the formidable sea snake.

It also suggests at least one species of sea snake may be adapting to pollution, though just how well it's working remains to be seen.

In a chance discovery, a team of biologists were returning from a sea snake research mission in Queensland, Australia when they found a new venomous species.

While most sea snakes are quite venomous, the turtle-headed sea snake has lost much of its venom potency, because fish eggs aren't exactly hard to kill.

Sea snake populations are declining worldwide, and I fear that we will lose many of these fascinating animals unless we can stop using the ocean like a toilet.

Teams of researchers had been tinkering away at the robotic sea snake for more than 10 years before finally producing something viable for its intended purpose: underwater exploration.

And lastly, in many venomous lineages, there are also non-venomous animals who have secondarily lost their toxicity, like the Marbled Sea Snake, which lost its venomous abilities.

Among them is the greater sea snake, which can reach nearly five feet in length and is more than capable of killing a human with a single bite.

It's just one of several differences that distinguish it from its closest living relative, Hydrophis platurus, a yellow sea snake that lives about 14 miles away in cooler waters.

A species of highly venomous sea snake that made rare appearances on two California beaches in recent months has also been washing up thousands of miles away in Australia.

Finally, they looked at another kind of sea snake called banded sea kraits, and found that even on a single snake, the dark stripes had more pollutants than light stripes.

Fry said bandy-bandies were burrowing snakes so they were surprised when they found it on a concrete block by the sea, after coming in from a night of sea snake spotting.

Only, rather than camouflage, black sea snake skin may act more like a pollution trap collecting heavy metals absorbed by the snakes and then cleaning them out as the skin is shed.

Something tells me that Ursula wouldn't take so kindly to the little mermaid pursuing counter legal action, and would have turned her into a sea snake before Ariel could have told her to lawyer up.

Image: Brooke L. Bessesen, Gary J. Galbreath/ZooKeysA new subspecies of sea snake has been discovered off the coast of Costa Rica, and it's got a unique hunting style that's never been seen before in aquatic reptiles.

As described in the science journal ZooKeys, the sea snake "opportunistically" feeds on small fish by hanging upside down in a coiled, or sinusoidal, position just below the water surface, and it only does so only at night.

But, for determining the direct cause of the sea snake stripe loss, it was industrial melanism in French pigeons that caught the attention of the study's lead author, Claire Goiran at Labex Corail & Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie.

To cope with so many animals being admitted to the hospital, in 2019 we opened a sea turtle rehabilitation centre, sea snake ward and are about to complete a new bird recovery area, but it's still not enough to keep up.

So the mythical Essex Serpent — a sea snake with wings and fangs that Colchester residents are certain is preying on them — becomes a repository for all the uncanny fears and repressed urges that science and rationality are supposed to have banished.

Where the River Loire empties into the Bay of Biscay in his adopted France, you can see one of his colossal shimmering serpents emerge from the water as the tide recedes; at times it looks like a sea snake, at others an earthly reptile.

The researchers who conducted the analysis, Brooke Bessesen from the Phoenix Zoo and Gary Galbreath from Northwestern University, say the newly discovered snake may actually belong to an entirely new species of sea snake, but for now they're content to designate it a subspecies, dubbed Hydrophis platurus xanthos.

"Because the robot design mimics the sea snake we get this lovely feedback loop – the biology informs the design of the robot, which not only records new observations of the sea snakes but generates new information about the link between form and function," University of Adelaide researcher told National Geographic.

The spine-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis hardwickii), also commonly known as Hardwicke's sea snake and Hardwicke's spine-bellied sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.

The olive-headed sea snake (Disteira major), also known as the greater sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.

Hydrophis cyanocinctus, commonly called the annulated sea snake or the blue- banded sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.

The graceful small-headed sea snake or slender sea snake (Hydrophis gracilis) is a species of Elapidae (Hydrophiinae-sea snake). Microcephalophis gracilis is a synonym of the snake.

Aipysurus laevis is a species of venomous sea snake found in the Indo-Pacific. Its common names include golden sea snake, olive sea snake, and olive-brown sea snake. The olive sea snake swims using a paddle-like tail. It has brownish and purple scales along the top of its body whilst its underside is a white color.

Jerdon's sea snake (Hydrophis jerdonii ) is a species of venomous sea snake in the subfamily Hydrophiinae.

Hydrophis klossi, commonly known as Kloss's sea snake or Kloss' sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to the Indian Ocean.

Hydrophis obscurus, commonly known as Russell's sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.

Hydrophis stricticollis, commonly called the collared sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.

A hook-nosed sea snake seen on Arossim Beach, South Goa, India. This snake was found in a fishing net and later released to the sea. Enhydrina schistosa, commonly known as the beaked sea snake', ('), hook-nosed sea snake, common sea snake, or the Valakadyn sea snake, is a highly venomous species of sea snake common throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific. This species is implicated in more than 50% of all bites caused by sea snakes, as well as the majority of envenomings and fatalities.

Hydrophis caerulescens, commonly known as the dwarf sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.

Hydrophis inornatus, commonly known as the plain sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.

The large-headed sea snake (Hydrophis pacificus) is sea snake in the family Elapidae native to waters off northern Australia.

The Small-headed sea snake (Hydrophis macdowelli) is sea snake in the family Elapidae native to waters off northern Australia.

Hydrophis annandalei, commonly known as Annandale's sea snake or the bighead sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the subfamily Hydrophiinae of the family Elapidae. It is sometimes placed in its own genus Kolpophis.

Hydrophis melanocephalus, commonly known as the slender-necked sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.

Hydrophis ornatus, commonly known as the ornate reef sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.

Hydrophis fasciatus, commonly known as the striped sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae (Hydrophiinae).

Hydrophis semperi, commonly known as the Lake Taal snake, Garman's sea snake, the Philippine freshwater sea snake, and the Luzon sea snake, is a rare species of venomous sea snake found only in a single lake on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It is noted for being one of two known species of sea snakes that are known to be found almost-exclusively in freshwater. The other freshwater sea snake species is Laticauda crockeri.

The Bombay sea snake (Hydrophis mamillaris), sometimes referred to as the broad-banded sea snake is a species of venomous sea snake native to the Indian Ocean. It is a poorly studied and surveyed species, with few records and a dubious type specimen.

H. belcheri is also referred to as Belcher's ocean snake. Belcher's sea snake has been mistakenly called the "hook-nosed sea snake" (which is actually Enhydrina schistosa) and in one instance was called the "blue-banded sea snake" (which is actually one common name for Hydrophis cyanocinctus).

In more than a decade of local sea snake research only 9 rough-scaled sea snakes have ever been found. Meanwhile, the same researchers had encountered some 10,000 individuals of other sea snake species in the same time period. Even if a rough-scaled sea snake was nearby it would likely be difficult to see due to the low visibility of its murky habitat. The rough-scaled sea snake had managed to avoid being serendipitously discovered by local fishermen trawling for prawns the way many other sea snake species are commonly caught.

The elegant sea snake (Hydrophis elegans) is a highly venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae. They are found off the coast of Western Australia, Northern Territory of Australia, and Queensland Australia. The elegant sea snake is a medium, and slender animal growing to a length of , although in 2008 one was found at a length of . Like many other sea snakes, the elegant sea snake has a laterally compressed tail that aids in swimming.

The venom of this species is made up of highly potent neurotoxins and myotoxins. This widespread species is responsible for the vast majority of deaths from sea snake bites (up to 90% of all sea snake bites).Beaked Sea Snake The value is 0.1125 mg/kg based on toxicology studies.LD50 of Beaked Sea Snake LD50 Menu The average venom yield per bite is approximately 7.9–9.0 mg, while the lethal human dose is estimated to be 1.5 mg.

There is an ongoing evolutionary contest between toxicity and resistance. The resistance of eels to sea snake venom is a good example of coevolution between predator-prey pairs. Sea snake venom is composed of complex mixtures of neurotoxins, myotoxins, nephrotoxins, and other nontoxic substances. The composition of the sea snake venom is species specific.

Hydrophis viperinus, the viperine sea snake, is a species of Elapidae (Hydrophiinae-sea snake) and Thalassophina viperina is its synonym. It is thought to be naturally rare but widespread. It is venomous.

Hydrophis spiralis, commonly known as the yellow sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae. H. spiralis feeds primarily on eels and is found in muddy, sandy ocean bottoms.

Stokes's sea snake (Hydrophis stokesii) is a large species of sea snake in the family Elapidae. It is sometimes placed in its own genus Astrotia. The species is endemic to tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters.

The katuali or flat-tail sea snake (Laticauda schistorhyncha) is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae. The species is found only in the waters of the Pacific Islands nation of Niue.

Hydrophis peronii, commonly known as the horned sea snake, Peron's sea snake, and the spiny-headed seasnake, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Hydrophiinae of the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to the western tropical Pacific Ocean. It is the only sea snake with spines on the head. Like all other members of the family Elapidae, it is venomous.

The anomalous sea snake (Hydrophis anomalus) is a species of sea snake. Its distribution includes the South Chinese Sea (Malaysia, Gulf of Thailand), and the Indian Ocean (Sumatra, Java, Borneo)."Hydrophis annandalei ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Hydrophis curtus, also known as Shaw's Sea Snake, short sea snake, but often includes Hydrophis hardwickiiGritis, P. & H. K. Voris 1990 Variability and significance of parietal and ventral scales in the marine snakes of the genus Lapemis (Serpentes: Hydrophiidae), with comments on the occurrence of spiny scales in the genus. Fieldiana Zool. n.s. (56): i-iii + 1-13. is a species of sea snake.

Hydrophis nigrocinctus is a species of marine venomous snakes Elapidae (Hydrophiinae-sea snake).

The estuarine sea snake (Hydrophis vorisi), also known commonly as Kharin's sea snake, is a species of marine venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is native to waters around the northern tip of Australia in the Torres Strait.

Hydrophis brookii is a species of venomous sea snake."Hydrophis brooki ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de.

Hydrelaps (commonly known as the Black-ringed sea snake, Point Darwin sea snake, and Black-ringed mangrove snake) is a genus of seasnake in the family Elapidae that contains the sole species Hydrelaps darwiniensis. It is found in Australia and New Guinea.

Aipysurus fuscus, commonly known as the dusky sea snake or Timor Reef snake, is a species of sea snake in the family Elapidae. It is found in the Timor Sea between Australia, Indonesia and East Timor and has been classified as endangered.

This makes A. duboisii the most venomous sea snake tested, and the third most venomous snake overall, behind the inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus, LD50=0.025 mg/kg) and the eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis, LD50=0.036 mg/kg).Heatwole, p. 115.Gopalakrishnakone P (1994). Sea Snake Toxinology.

Recent work has included new discoveries on the evolution of sea snake vision , cutaneous respiration in the forehead of some sea snakes, and the presence of light sensors in the tails of some sea snakes Sanders's work includes an appointment as co-chair of the IUCN/SSC Sea Snake Specialist Group.

Emydocephalus ijimae, also called Ijima's sea snake and Ijima's turtleheaded sea snake, is a species of snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to East Asia. E. ijimae feeds exclusively on the eggs of coral reef fishes, which makes them an important predator for maintaining a healthy coral reef ecosystem.

Hydrophis cantoris is a species of venomous sea snake found in the Indian Ocean and its seas, bays and gulfs.

The black-banded sea snake (Hydrophis melanosoma) is a marine snake native to waters around Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra and Sulawesi.

Lambert's sea snake (Hydrophis lamberti) is a marine snake native to waters around Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore,Malaysia and the Philippines.

Pelamis platurus is a yellow-bellied sea snake that lives in tropical and subtropical waters. It prefers shallow inshore waters.

Emydocephalus annulatus, commonly known as the turtleheaded sea snake or egg- eating sea snake, is a species of sea snake that can be found in waters of Oceania near Australia and some Pacific Islands such as the Philippines and the Loyalty Islands of New Caledonia. The geographic range is sporadic, for example, with populations distributed near the eastern and western coasts of Australia in the Great Barrier Reef and the Timor Sea reefs, respectively. They do not, however, occur in the Gulf of Carpentaria along the north coast.Emydocephalus annulatus (2010).

The biggest piece of evidence for this as a case of coevolution is that eels that are favored by sea snakes as prey have unusually high tolerances to the venom of the sea snake. Studies have analyzed the resistance of four species of eels to two different sea snakes: one is a dietary generalist and the other is an eel specialist. The eels were more resistant to the venom of the eel specialist sea snake. Non-prey fishes exhibited very low levels of resistance to the sea snake venom, further supporting coevolution.

Aipysurus foliosquama, also known as the leaf-scaled sea snake, is a critically endangered species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae. It was formerly endemic to the Ashmore and Cartier Islands of Australia, having thought to have become extinct there. In 2015, the snake was discovered in seagrass beds of Shark Bay off Western Australia.

Crocker's sea snake (Laticauda crockeri ) is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Hydrophiinae. The species L. crockeri is found in Oceania.

A novel foraging mode in snakes: browsing by the sea snake Emydocephalus annulatus (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae). Functional Ecology 18:16-24.Schwenk, K. 1995.

Smith's small-headed sea snake (Hydrophis parviceps) is a marine snake native to waters around the mouth of the Mekong River in Vietnam.

Aipysurus eydouxii, commonly known as the beaded sea snake, marbled seasnake, or spine-tailed seasnake, is a species of sea snake in the family Elapidae. This species of snake is unusual amongst sea snakes in that it feeds exclusively on fish eggs. As part of this unusual diet, this species has lost its fangs, and the venom glands are almost entirely atrophied.

Pelamis platura, the pelagic sea snake, is the only one of the 65 species of marine snakes to spend its entire life in the pelagic zone. It bears live young at sea and is helpless on land. The species sometimes forms aggregations of thousands along slicks in surface waters. The pelagic sea snake is the world's most widely distributed snake species.

Hydrophiid snakes, otherwise known as sea snakes, have only recently evolved from terrestrial elapids. Sea snake scales differ from that of terrestrial snakes because they are rugose and wrinkled. Male sea snakes scale rugosity is more developed than that of the females snakes. The male turtle headed sea snake, Emydocephalus annulatus, provides an interesting case study because of their unique scales.

Hydrophis bituberculatus, commonly known as Peters' Sea Snake, is a species of venomous elapid. It is found in the Indian Ocean (Sri Lanka, Thailand).

The black-banded sea krait (Laticauda semifasciata), also known commonly as the Chinese sea snake, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Laticaudinae of the family Elapidae. In Japan it is known as erabu umi hebi (:ja:エラブウミヘビ), and in Okinawa as the irabu. It is found in most of the warm waters of the western Pacific Ocean. This sea snake frequents coral reef areas.

A species of sea snake, Aipysurus eydouxii, commemorates his name.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

The device weighs and is long.Dinwoodie, Robbie (19 May 2010) "Launched: mighty sea snake that could power 500 homes". Glasgow; The Herald. Retrieved 29 May 2010.

Laticauda frontalis is a sea snake in the family Elapidae first described by De Vis in 1905. It is native to waters off New Caledonia and Vanuatu.

The black-headed sea snake (Hydrophis atriceps) is a marine snake native to waters around Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and northern Australia, and New Guinea.

Laticauda guineai is a sea snake in the family Elapidae first described by Heatwole, Busack and Cogger in 2005. It is native to waters off southern New Guinea.

Aipysurus duboisii, also known as the Dubois' sea snake or reef shallows sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake. Its geographic range includes Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia and the northern, eastern and western coastal areas of Australia, that is the Coral Sea, Arafura Sea, Timor Sea and Indian Ocean.Aipysurus duboisii — Dubois' Seasnake, Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities They live at depths up to 80 meters (262 feet) in coral reef flats, sandy and silty sediments which contain seaweed, invertebrates and corals or sponges that can serve as shelter. These snakes feed on moray eels and various fish that live on the seafloor, up to 110 cm (3.6 feet) in size.

Although sea snakes are known for extremely potent venom, about 80% of reported bites end up being dry. It is estimated that each year 15,000 to 75,000 fisherman are bitten by sea snakes. The advent of antivenom and advances in emergency medicine have reduced fatalities to about 3% of snakebite cases. The highly venomous beaked sea snake is responsible for more than 50% of all sea snake bites, as well as the majority of envenomings and fatalities.

Although aggressive with a venomous bite, there are no reported human fatalities attributed to Stokes' seasnake. Stokes's sea snake is captured as bycatch in fisheries, for example in prawn fisheries in Australia.

The slender-necked sea snake (Hydrophis coggeri) is a marine snake native to waters around western Australia and the South Pacific (New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Fiji). The type locality is in Fiji.

Hydrophis donaldi, or the rough-scaled sea snake is a unique species of sea snakes from Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria first described for the scientific literature in 2012. It is a yellow to brown, striped snake that reaches up to a meter in length. It gives live birth and is venomous enough to be dangerous to humans. The primary distinguishing trait of the rough-scaled sea snake is the presence of a single spine on every scale covering the snake's body.

The 2012 formal scientific description of the rough-scaled sea snake was not published until 12 years after Bryan Fry of Queensland University originally discovered the snake in 2000. The specific epithet was chosen to honor Dave Donald, the skipper of the boat used during the expedition that discovered the snake. The scientists attributed their discovery to Donald's hard work and familiarity with the local waters of Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. The discovery and scientific documentation of the rough-scaled sea snake was delayed by many factors.

The blue-lipped sea krait, blue-banded sea krait, or common sea krait (Laticauda laticaudata) is a species of venomous sea snake in the subfamily Laticaudinae, family Elapidae. It is found in the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.

La víbora de la mar (lit. The sea snake) is a traditional singing game originating in Mexico. It is a popular children's game in Mexico and Latin America, and also in Spain where it is known as "pasemisí".

Hydrophis lapemoides is a species of snake in the family Elapidae known commonly as the Persian Gulf sea snake.Hydrophis lapemoides. Reptile Database. This sea snake is native to the Indian Ocean from the Persian Gulf to the coasts of Thailand.

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T176710A7287960. Downloaded on 06 August 2018.Rasmussen, A. R., M. AULIYA & W. BÖHME 2001. A new species of sea snake genus Hydrophis (Serpentes: Elapidae) from a river in West Kalimantan (Indonesia, Borneo).

Equatorial spitting cobras can still be found in desolated urban areas of Singapore. The bigger king cobra is much rarer. The banded krait sometimes show up as road kills. There are also 2 coral snake and 9 sea snake species.

Marine turtles are common in the Park, with green turtle (Chelonia mydas), loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) and occasional sightings of leatherback turtles. Nesting green turtles and loggerhead turtles have been recorded on several beaches, with some eggs hatching successfully. Only a few species of sea snakes have been recorded in the region, including the Elegant sea snake (Hydrophis elegans) and Yellow-bellied sea snake (Pelamis platurus). The only reptile recorded on Muttonbird Island since 1969 is Burton’s Snake Lizard (Lialis burtonis) though Eastern Water Dragons (Physignathus lesueurii) were plentiful prior to 1930.

The crowned Roman god wields a trident with one hand while he grabs a sea snake with the other hand. It has a maximum water capacity of 305 m3. The fountain is the site where the Atlético Madrid's fans celebrate the team's trophies.

Bekker, 1975, p. 352Green, 1970, p. 648 The Italian navy assembled an armada of (MFP), converted civilian ships and mine layers and 74 smaller boats. German MFPs, Siebel ferries, , , large inflatable rafts and the (Sea Snake a portable landing bridge), were contributed by the German navy.

The Ornate snake eel (Herpetoichthys regius, also known as the sea snake in St. HelenaCommon names of Herpetoichthys regius at www.fishbase.org.) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).Herpetoichthys regius at www.fishbase.org. It was described by John Richardson in 1848, originally under the genus Ophisurus.

It is the most venomous sea snake, and one of the top three most venomous snakes in the world.Fry, Bryan, Deputy Director, Australian Venom Research Unit, University of Melbourne (March 9, 2002). "Snakes Venom LD50 – list of the available data and sorted by route of injection ". venomdoc.com. (archived) Retrieved October 14, 2013.

The Comparative Reception of Darwinism. University of Chicago Press. p. 83. He suffered a major stroke in 1887 and died a few years later. A species of Philippine sea snake he first collected, Hydrophis semperi, was named in his honor, as were two species of Philippine lizards, Gonocephalus semperi and Lipinia semperi.

The belcher's sea snake is of moderate size, ranging from 0.5 to 1 meter (about 20–40 inches) in adult length. Its thin body is usually chrome yellowish in colour with dark greenish crossbands. The dorsal pattern does not extend onto the venter. The head is short and has bands of the same colours.

Ilomba is a sea snake with destructive powers in the mythology of the Lozi people of Zambia. It is created by a witch doctor. It is made with their finger nails and blood from their forehead, back, and chest. They mix it in a pan with herbs that were considered to have a magical force.

However, later specimens collected at Visakhapatnam were apparently satisfactory, and most available research asserts that the Bombay sea snake is a valid species. In the two centuries since the Bombay sea snake's discovery, assignments to multiple genera have been proposed- including Aturia, Chitulia, and Leioselasma. It was assigned to Hydrophis in 1943, where it remains to this day.

The quote comes from his book Approximations (1922): "...premier tressaillement vital; surtout il s'agit à tout moment de sacrifier ce que nous sommes à ce que nous pouvons devenir." Dubois is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of venomous sea snake, Aipysurus duboisii.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles.

Terrestrial snakes use pheromones to locate potential sexual partners, with a male often tracking a female's scent over large distances. This is not possible, though, in the aquatic environment of the turtle-headed sea snake. E. annulatus instead uses visual cues to search for mates. These include the size, movement, and color pattern of the object holding its attention.

Myrichthys colubrinus, the banded snake eel, ringed snake eel or harlequin snake eel, is a snake eel from the Indo-Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of in length. The ringed snake eel resembles the venomous sea snake, Laticauda colubrina which is a form of Batesian mimicry.

Among them Phosphatherium is the best known and most frequent. Mammals are extremely rare in the Ouled Abdoun in contrast to the associated marine vertebrate fauna which includes sea birds, sharks, bony fish, and marine reptiles (including crocodilians, sea turtles, and the sea snake Palaeophis). Terrestrial species were probably transported off shore into the Moroccan sea before fossilization.

It was said to hiss and squeak. In December 1948, Eric Decker, the Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Sandgate, caught such a "serpent" while on holidays at Bribie Island. Mr Mack, curator at the Queensland Museum, said the description was consistent with a common sea snake in Moreton Bay. At the White Patch recorded a population of 112.

It was also observed to mimic sessile animals such as small sponges, tube-worm tubes, or colonial tunicates. The octopus may be able to intelligently use its mimicry based on the situation. For example, an octopus which was being harassed by damselfish mimicked a banded sea snake, a damselfish predator. It decides which mimicry behavior would be most appropriate and acts upon it.

Fossil mollusca are abundant, and fossil fish are to be found, as well as Palaeophis, a sea-snake, and Puppigerus, a sea turtle. Nummulites and other foraminifera also occur. The Bracklesham Group lies between the Barton Clay above and the Bournemouth Beds, Lower Bagshot, below. In the London Basin, these beds are represented only by thin sandy clays in the Middle Bagshot group.

No matter how many times Flipper saves his life, Dexter will always make up a new plan to try and destroy him. He likes to praise himself for his 'excellence', however isn't the brightest sea creature around. Serge - Serge is a sea snake who acts as the 'brains' to Dexter's motivation. He is bright green, with a devious and sharp mind.

A pelagic species most commonly encountered along the coast, the Bombay sea snake likely travels via currents over long distances. Typically found in areas with soft substrate, such as sand or mud. Little is known of the mating habits of this snake- based on the single recorded gravid female, they are viviparous. The brood size was 3-4, and the young measured 12 inches long near birth.

The Cambodian zodiac is exactly identical to that of the Chinese although the dragon is interchangeable with the Neak (nāga) Cambodian sea snake. Sheep and Goat are interchangeable as well. Unlike China, Cambodians start their new year in April rather than in the beginning of the year. That is why the Cambodian New Year is celebrated in April rather than in January like most countries.

The Italians also requested the use of 200 additional German to quickly transfer men from ship to shore. The Italian landing flotilla and the supporting ships formed the "Special Naval Force" (Forza Navale Speciale) under Admiral Vittorio Tur. Specialised landing equipment slated for Herkules included the (Sea Snake), a floating ship-to-shore bridge originally developed by the German Army for Operation Sea Lion.

They also listed it as one of the "best flying type Pokémon", describing it as a "flying sea snake." Author Ash Dekirk wrote that Gyarados and Magikarp were inspired by the Asiatic myth of the Dragon Gate. He adds that it is "scaled in sapphire" with "catfish barbels" on its "somewhat blunted snout". Author Loredane Lipperini similarly described Gyarados as resembling something from the Chinese New Year.

Along the shores of Astola and Ormara beaches of Balochistan and Hawk'e Bay and Sandspit beaches of Sindh are nesting sites for five endangered species of sea turtles: green sea, loggerhead, hawksbill, olive ridley and leatherback. Sea snakes such as yellow-bellied sea snake are also found in the pelagic zone of the sea. The wetlands of Pakistan are also a home to the mugger crocodile who prefer freshwater habitat.

A. eydouxii eats the eggs of fish. Relative to other sea snakes, it has several derived characteristics related to its special diet. These include strong throat musculature, consolidation of lip scales, reduction and loss of teeth, greatly reduced body size, and (due to a dinucleotide deletion in the 3FTx gene) much reduced toxicity of the venom. Only one other species of sea snake, Emydocephalus annulatus, shares A. eydouxii’s eggs-only diet.

If they stay in the same area, then the snakes are able to feed regularly on the same sites. Curiously, Emydocephalus is the only sea snake that does not possess palatal teeth. Contrary to the foraging habits of other snakes, the turtle-head tends to eat smaller, more frequent meals rather than larger, infrequent prey. In this respect, Emydocephalus feeds more like a grazing mammal than a snake.

This snake in particular has venom that contains enzymes which break down the prey from within for easier digestion. The venom also affects both the muscles and nerves of the prey and drop-for-drop it is the most toxic sea snake. The snake usually hunts in coral reef areas, searching for food via poking their head through crevices. The creature usually stays away from open water as a hunting ground.

The two other endemic fish species in Taal Lake are the gobies Gnatholepis volcanus and Rhinogobius flavoventris. Taal Lake is also home to one of the world's rarest sea snakes, Hydrophis semperi. This particular species is only one of two "true" sea snake (Hydrophiinae) species that are known to live entirely in freshwater (the other is Hydrophis sibauensis from the Sibua River, Borneo, Indonesia Rasmussen, A. 2010. Hydrophis sibauensis.

Kate Sanders is a researcher at the University of Adelaide, specialising in the study of sea snakes. She received a PhD from Bangor University in 2003 and was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2013-2017). Sanders has undertaken field work that has resulted in the identification of new species, including the sea snake Aipysurus mosaicus. Sanders has examined and published on the aquatic snakes of seas off the Western Australian and Indonesian coasts.

Stokes's sea snake is one of the heaviest and stoutest seasnakes, with the longest fangs of any marine snake. Its fangs are long enough to pierce a wetsuit. Its mid-ventral scales are enlarged to form a distinct keel on its belly, the keel frequently broken up into two wart-like tubercles. A. stokesii is highly variable in colour, ranging from cream to brown to black, often with broad black dorsal cross bands, or black rings.

If they do bite, it is usually in self- defense when accidentally grabbed. Most sea snake bites occur when fishermen attempt to untangle the snakes from their fishing nets. In the Philippines, yellow-lipped sea kraits are caught for their skin and meat; the meat is smoked and exported for use in Japanese cuisine. The smoked meat of a related Laticauda species, the black-banded sea krait, is used in Okinawan cuisine to make irabu-jiru (, irabu soup).

The Bombay sea snake was first described by François Marie Daudin in 1803, from a specimen collected at Visakhapatnam on India's eastern coast. It was first assigned to the genus Anguis, and given the specific name mamillaris. This refers to the central tubercle at the center of each scale, which was thought to resemble the mammalian nipple. Some authorities express doubt over the veracity of Daudin's type specimen, arguing that the vague description provided is insufficient.

This results in the predator learning to avoid species displaying similar colours and markings, including Batesian mimics, which are in effect parasitic on the chemical or other defences of the unprofitable models. Some species of octopus can mimic a selection of other animals by changing their skin color, skin pattern and body motion. When a damselfish attacks an octopus, the octopus mimics a banded sea- snake. The model chosen varies with the octopus's predator and habitat.

Observations on the anterior testicular ducts in snakes with emphasis on sea snakes and ultrastructure in the yellow-bellied sea snake, Pelamis platurus. Journal of Morphology 273: 324-336. A reptilian histologic initial segment of the epididymis has been extensively documented in several speciesHaider, S. & Rai, U. (1987). Epididymis of the Indian wall lizard (Hemidactylus flaviviridis) during the sexual cycle and in response to mammalian pituitary gonadotrophins and testosterone. Journal of Morphology 191: 151-160.Van Wyk, J.H. (1995).

Elapids may display a series of warning signs if provoked, either obviously or subtly. Cobras and mambas lift their inferior body parts, expand hoods, and hiss if threatened; kraits often curl up before hiding their heads down their bodies. In general, sea snakes are able to respire through their skin. Experiments with the yellow-bellied sea snake, Hydrophis platurus, have shown that this species can satisfy about 20% of its oxygen requirements in this manner, allowing for prolonged dives.

A spinner dolphin in Bay of Bengal Tachypleus gigas in Odisha The Bay of Bengal is full of biological diversity, diverging amongst coral reefs, estuaries, fish spawning and nursery areas, and mangroves. The Bay of Bengal is one of the World's 64 largest marine ecosystems. Kerilia jerdonii is a sea snake of the Bay of Bengal. Glory of Bengal cone (Conus bengalensis) is just one of the seashells which can be photographed along beaches of the Bay of Bengal.

The documentary was largely filmed around Irwin's research boat, Croc One. The pair filmed and sometimes even captured several deadly sea animals, including stonefish, sea snakes, great white sharks, cone snails, blue-ringed octopuses, saltwater crocodiles and perhaps the world's deadliest venomous animal, the box jellyfish. According to Steve Irwin, one of the specimens, a Stokes' sea snake, was the largest he had seen. The team of researchers harvested venom from the stonefish and some of the sea snakes.

He also stated that he had been informed that an adult, who died from > the effects of a bite from a sea snake, was buried on the island. In 1929 > There has, been reference in the papers to a grave with a cross with the > letters T.J.G. cut in it out on North West Island, the identity of the > occupant being unknown. The remains of a man named Tom Galviui, or Galeon, a > red-shirt of Garibaldi, are there.

Many smaller predators such as the box jellyfish use venom to subdue their prey, and venom can also aid in digestion (as is the case for rattlesnakes and some spiders). The marbled sea snake that has adapted to egg predation has atrophied venom glands, and the gene for its three finger toxin contains a mutation (the deletion of two nucleotides) that inactives it. These changes are explained by the fact that its prey does not need to be subdued.

In 1817 the society investigated reports of sightings of an extraordinary "sea serpent" north of Boston, around Gloucester and Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Members of the society circulated systematic questionnaires, and wrote up a scientifically-informed report, published the same year. The report included information on Erik Pontoppidan's Norway sea snake, and on a smaller Cape Ann sea animal actually examined, "a remarkable serpent, supposed to be the progeny of the great serpent."Vermont Intelligencer, 12-01-1817; p.3.

Thirty-three sea snakes from family Hydrophiidae inhabit Australia's northern waters; many are extremely venomous. Two species of sea snake from the Acrochordidae also occur in Australian waters. Australia has only 11 species from the world's most significant snake family Colubridae; none are endemic, and they are considered to be relatively recent arrivals from Asia. There are 15 python species and 45 species of insectivorous blind snake.Wilson and Swan (2017), p. 476 There are 30 species of goanna in Australia.

Approximate world distribution of snakes There are over 2,900 species of snakes ranging as far northward as the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia and southward through Australia. Snakes can be found on every continent except Antarctica, in the sea, and as high as in the Himalayan Mountains of Asia. There are numerous islands from which snakes are absent, such as Ireland, Iceland, and New Zealand (although New Zealand's waters are infrequently visited by the yellow-bellied sea snake and the banded sea krait).

The Ningaloo supports an abundance of fish (500 species), corals (300 species), molluscs (600 species) and many other marine invertebrates. The reef is less than half a kilometre offshore in some areas, such as Coral Bay. In 2006, researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science discovered gardens of sponges in the marine park's deeper waters that are thought to be species completely new to science. The short- nosed sea snake, thought to have been extinct for 17 years, was found on Ningaloo Reef in December 2015.

Rogers had a wide range of interests in tropical medicine, from the study of kala-azar epidemics to sea snake venoms, but is best known for pioneering the treatment of cholera with hypertonic saline, which has saved a multitude of lives. Rogers was one of the pioneers in setting up the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine in India. In 1929, Rogers was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh. He was president of the 1919 session of the Indian Science Congress.

The venom of this elapid, Laticauda colubrina, is a very powerful neurotoxic protein, with a subcutaneous LD50 in mice of 0.45 mg/kg body weight. The venom is an α-neurotoxin that disrupts synapses by competing with acetylcholine for receptors on the postsynaptic membrane, similar to erabutoxins and α-bungarotoxins. In mice, lethal venom doses cause lethargy, flaccid paralysis, and convulsions in quick succession before death. Dogs injected with lethal doses produced symptoms consistent with fatal hypertension and cyanosis observed in human sea snake bite victims.

The Bombay sea snake is a small (2–2 ½ feet) snake with greyish coloration and a body patterned with black bands. These bands are broader than the interval scales at the mid-body, a trait that is unique to this snake in the Indian Ocean. The head is black in color, with small eyes and a rounded snout of moderate length. The tail is laterally compressed, black in color, and encircled by one to six light-colored rings which are broken on the underside of the tail.

It is found in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf (off Oman), south of the Seychelles and Madagascar, the seas off South Asia (Pakistan, India and Bangladesh), Southeast Asia (Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand, Vietnam). Snakes from Australia (Northern Territory and Queensland) and New Guinea are now provisionally identified as Enhydrina zweifeli, due to DNA tests that have shown they are not related to Enhydrina schistosa.Ukuwela, K.D.B. et al. (online 2012): Molecular evidence that the deadliest sea snake Enhydrina schistosa (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) consists of two convergent species.

The dwarf sea snake is bluish or grayish blue dorsally, merging to yellowish ventrally, with 35-58 deep bluish-black crossbands. The crossbands are as wide or wider than the interspaces, well defined in younger specimens, but obscure in older specimens. The head is black, and in juveniles may also have a yellowish horseshoe-shaped mark. Adults may attain a total length of 74 cm (2 ft 5 in). The dorsal scales are arranged in 38-54 rows at midbody (31-43 rows on the neck).

The turtle-headed sea snake feeds solely on immobile demersal fish eggs, such as those of damselfish, blennies, and gobies. The larger the snake, the more likely it is to feed on damselfish eggs, which lie in exposed areas, rather than blennies' and gobies', whose eggs are located in narrow crevices. E. annulatus populations tend to stay where they are and rarely move between territories. This could possibly be related to the spatial memory of snakes and their ability to remember where nests are located.

Like all "true" sea snakes, H. semperi is a rather heavyset snake, elongated with a small head. It possesses the characteristic flattened, paddle-like tail found in the members of its subfamily. This particular species is considered short in comparison to the rest of the family; adult specimens of H. semperi that have been caught have a total length (including tail) of . The snake is colored much like a typical sea snake, having a dark blue or black body with narrow yellow (sometimes white) crossbands.

Isshinryu No Megami ("Goddess of Isshinryu"), , or for short, is the symbol of Isshin-ryu. It is represented on the Isshin-ryu crest and is often displayed on the front wall of the dojo next to a picture of Tatsuo Shimabuku. As an emblem for Isshin-ryū Tatsuo Shimabuku chose a half-sea-snake half-woman deity whom he had seen in a vision. She represents the strength of the snake and the quiet character of a woman, thus expressing the essence of the style.

The story of Budden and his sacrifice spurred efforts to capture other snakes and produce more antivenoms, including Brown snake in 1956, death adder in 1958, Papuan black snake in 1961: Sea snake in 1962, and polyvalent snake antivenom in 1962. In a 2014 article published in the Journal of Proteomics, University of Queensland venomologist Bryan Fry reported finding specimens of the venom harvested from the taipan that killed Budden. His study found that the venom had retained its toxicity after almost sixty years in dry storage.

The first large molecule whose atomic structure was partly determined on a molecular computer graphics system was Transfer RNA by Sung-Hou Kim's team in 1976. after initial fitting on a mechanical Richards Box. The first large molecule whose atomic structure was entirely determined on a molecular computer graphics system is said to be neurotoxin A from venom of the Philippines sea snake, by Tsernoglou, Petsko, and Tu, with a statement of being first in 1977. The Richardson group published partial atomic structure results of the protein superoxide dismutase the same year, in 1977.

The distribution range of the species has contracted since its first identification, and is currently known from a declining population inhabiting Shark Bay on the western coast of Australia. The leaf-scaled sea snake prefers waters up to 10 metres in depth. In December 2015 a population of the snakes was found living in seagrass beds of Shark Bay off Western Australia. Previously, its only known habitats were some 1,700 km away in the Ashmore and Hibernia Reefs in the Timor Sea, from where it had since disappeared.

The yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina), also known as the banded sea krait, colubrine sea krait, is a species of venomous sea snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters. The snake has distinctive black stripes and a yellow snout, with a paddle-like tail for use in swimming. It spends much of its time underwater in order for it to hunt, but returns to land to digest, rest, and reproduce. It has very potent neurotoxic venom which it uses to prey on eels and small fish.

In coastal Japan, atmospheric ghost lights appear as mountains and obstruct one's path, and are said to disappear if one does not avoid the mountain and tries to bump into it intently. There is also the folk belief that if a live sharksucker gets stuck to the bottom of a boat, it would not be able to move, so ayakashi is a synonym for this type of fish. In the Konjaku Hyakki Shūi by Sekien Toriyama, the ayakashi are represented by a large sea snake, but this may actually be an ikuchi.

Central America is home to 23 species of pit vipers, and they inflict the vast majority of reported bites. Of these, Bothrops asper is the most important species, partly because it is abundant in lowland areas and partly because it is frequently found in agricultural and pastoral areas where humans work. Of the elapids, the yellow-bellied sea snake has, very rarely, caused venomous bites, while the coral snakes, although common, inflict only 1 to 2% of all reported snake bites. Of the coral snakes, Micrurus nigrocinctus is responsible for the most bites.

Forty-nine species mass spawn, while eighty-four other species spawn elsewhere in their range. Seventeen species of sea snake live on the Great Barrier Reef in warm waters up to deep and are more common in the southern than in the northern section. None found in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area are endemic, nor are any endangered. Six species of sea turtles come to the reef to breed: the green sea turtle, leatherback sea turtle, hawksbill turtle, loggerhead sea turtle, flatback turtle, and the olive ridley.

The acute toxicity of snake venom is conventionally tested on laboratory animals and is evaluated in terms of the median lethal dose (LD50), that is, the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population divided by the weight of the tested animal. The LD50 depends on the animal. Rabbits are about twice as sensitive to sea snake venom as mice, and fish and frogs are even more susceptible. The LD50 for subcutaneous injection of A. duboisii venom into mice is 0.044 mg/kg of body weight.

Over 54 species of terrestrial reptiles have been recorded in the UAE. These include a large number of lizards, found in all environments from desert, to city, to mountain-top, and a single species of worm lizard. There are thirteen species of terrestrial snake, some of the largest being the sand boa, the saw-scaled viper and the horned viper, and four species of sea snake as well as green sea turtles present in the Persian Gulf. The Ru'us al-Jibal have a gecko of the genus Ptyodactylus named after them.

His virtual creatures used an artificial neural network to process input from virtual sensors and act on virtual muscles between cuboid 'limbs'. The creatures were evolved to display multiple modes of water and land based movements such as swimming like a sea snake or fish, jumping and tumbling (walking was not achieved). The creatures were also co-evolved in different species to compete for possession of a virtual cube, displaying the red queen effect. The cover of Artificial Life: An Overview by Chris Langton notably used an image of the creatures generated by Sims.

They recorded the tracks Sea Snake Beware, Eating A Heart Out, Lily White's Party and The Sea Ritual. At live performances Jon Poole often featured instead of William D. Drake. In 2007, All My Eye And Betty Martin Music re-released the Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake album onto CD. On 4 May 2009, the Peel session was re-broadcast as a Classic Session on BBC 6 Music. A second album, On the Dry Land, was recorded around the same time as their debut in the 1990s but remained unreleased until November 2016.

Hikuleo took as his portion, Pulotu, Tangaloa took the sky and Maui the underworld. Hemoana, whose form the sea snake, and Lupe, whose form was a dove, then divided the remainder between them, Hemoana taking the sea and Lupe taking the land. Tangaloa had several sons in the sky: Tangaloa Tamapouli Alamafoa, Tangaloa Eitumatupua, Tangaloa Atulongolongo and Tangaloa Tufunga. Old Tangaloa grew tired of looking down from the sky and seeing nothing but sea, so he sent down Tangaloa Atulongolongo in the form of a plover to see if he could find land.

Covering 238.9 square degrees and hence 0.579% of the sky, Antlia ranks 62nd of the 88 modern constellations by area. Its position in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere means that the whole constellation is visible to observers south of 49°N. Hydra the sea snake runs along the length of its northern border, while Pyxis the compass, Vela the sails, and Centaurus the centaur line it to the west, south and east respectively. The three-letter abbreviation for the constellation, as adopted by the International Astronomical Union, is "Ant".

Referred to as the "German jetty" by local inhabitants, they remained standing for the next thirty-six years until demolition crews finally removed them in 1978–79, a testament to their durability. The German Army developed a portable landing bridge of its own nicknamed Seeschlange (Sea Snake). This "floating roadway" was formed from a series of joined modules that could be towed into place to act as a temporary jetty. Moored ships could then either unload their cargo directly onto the roadbed or lower it down onto waiting vehicles via their heavy-duty booms.

The Wilderness Society described the area as a "marine superhighway", and whales and endangered flatback turtles observed in the area are at risk from the spill. By 3 September 2009, fishers observed sick and dying marine life, and an absence of birds in the spill area. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) observed spinner dolphins, sooty terns, spotted sea snake and threatened hawksbill and flatback turtles swimming in the oil slick, and expressed concern about long- term effects. WWF also observed a wax-like residue from the oil spill.

The first movie, was released in December 1992. President Ohara has a health scare, so the Touzai Shimbun and Teito Times agree to focus on recipes which prolong life in the next round of the competition between, Touzai's Ultimate Menu and Teito's Supreme Menu. Kurita suggests the that team travels to Okinawa because of the long lifespan of residents there. They meet the restaurant owner, Noguchi Hatsumi, who introduces them to traditional shinji food comprised mainly of pork, vegetables and herbs, seaweed and tofu, plus the local speciality of sea snake.

On 22 November 2017, a killer whale was spotted near the island, a rare sighting as killer whales are found in deep water, whereas the depth of the water where the whale was sighted was only 72 meters deep. It was also the first sighting of a killer whale in the Karachi area since 2003. Other marine life around Charna includes the yellow-bellied sea snake, great barracuda, narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, cobia, mahi-mahi, skipjack tuna, angel fish, sea urchin, sea fan, oyster, ray fish and rare green turtle. The Pakistan Game Fishing Association (PGFA) holds national angling competitions near Charna.

Species that are important to people as food, such as the golden mahseer and large freshwater shrimp (Macrobrachium species), are part of the abundant aquatic life. Along the shores of Astola and Ormara beaches of Balochistan and Hawk'e Bay and Sandspit beaches of Sindh are nesting sites for five endangered species of sea turtles: green sea, loggerhead, hawksbill, olive ridley and leatherback. Sea snakes such as yellow-bellied sea snake are also found in the pelagic zone of the sea. The wetlands of Pakistan are also a home to the endangered species of gharial and mugger crocodile who prefer freshwater habitat.

Of the snakes the ‘Guardian’ commands, vipers and cobras are the most famous among them, but you should fear the banded sea krait or yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrine) the most, because one drop of its venom can kill three adults and there is no antidote. They are commonly found in rivers in rainforests as well as tropical coasts. Sea snakes are trapped in the fishing nets occasionally. When an unfortunate fisherman is busy sorting out the fishes, he might be bitten by sea snake without knowing it, due to the anesthetic effect of the venom.

During this period Barbeys crew and her embarked Helicopter detachment SH2-F "Sea Snake 11" conducted three at sea rescues, of which, two were from merchant ships of foreign registry. Upon completion of her LEO assignment Barbey participated in several fleet exercises and then entered another repair availability. ROCN Hwai Yang (FFG-937) Barbey was decommissioned on 20 March 1992 and struck from the Navy list on 11 January 1995. She was disposed of through the Security Assistance Program, foreign military sale to Taiwan on 29 September 1999, where she served as ROCS Hwai Yang (FFG-937).

" Richard Dawkins reviewed the book, noting that it contains a number of factual errors, such as the misidentification of a sea snake as an eel (one is a reptile, the other a fish) and in two places uses images of fishing-lures copied from the internet instead of actual species. A number of other modern species are mislabelled. He concludes: "I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content. Is it really inanity, or is it just plain laziness — or perhaps cynical awareness of the ignorance and stupidity of the target audience — mostly Muslim creationists.

Maeda's early work on sea snake venoms led to an interest in molecular evolution, which she pursued in Fitch's laboratory. She published in the 1980s on molecular evolution in higher primates such as chimpanzees and humans. Her work focused on the large mutational effects of recombination between members of multigene families, particularly in the human haptoglobin gene cluster. In 1987, Maeda, Smithies and coworkers used the novel technique of gene targeting – a method of replacing single mouse genes using homologous recombination developed by Smithies, Mario Capecchi and others – to correct the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase gene responsible for Lesch–Nyhan syndrome in mouse cells in vitro.

Most of the Pacific Islands are free of terrestrial snakes; however, sea snakes are common in the Indian Ocean and tropical Pacific Ocean, but are not found in the Atlantic Ocean or the Caribbean, Mediterranean or Red Seas. While the majority of species live close to shorelines or coral reefs, the fully pelagic yellow-bellied sea snake can be found in the open ocean. Over 50% of bites inflicted by sea snakes, which are generally not aggressive, occur when fishermen attempt to remove snakes which have become tangled in fishing nets. Symptoms may appear in as little as 5 minutes or take 8 hours to develop, depending on the species and region of the body bitten.

H. semperi is known to be found only in the waters of Lake Taal (formerly known as Lake Bombon) in the province of Batangas in the Philippines. The only freshwater sea snake in the country, it lives the entirety of its life within the confines of the lake, feeding and breeding in its slightly acidic waters. The lake itself is a volcanic crater lake, which was formerly saltwater but gradually lost its salinity after the lake was closed off from the sea by an eruption in the 16th century. It is this unique aspect of the lake's formation and history that led to the evolution of several once-saltwater species, including H. semperi.

In episode four, Boneham's tribe lost immunity, but he was kidnapped by the Morgan tribe and did not attend Tribal Council. He temporarily looked after a sea snake named Balboa, who became the namesake of the merged tribe. In Episode Six, Drake lost their third immunity challenge, and Dunn conspired with Diaz-Twine, "Jonny Fairplay" Dalton, and Shawn Cohen to vote out Boneham, but he was saved by Diaz-Twine and Cohen, sending Dunn home instead. After the next Tribal Council when Cohen was voted out, Burton Roberts from Drake and Lillian "Lil" Morris from Morgan returned to the game, as part of the Outcast twist, and both joined the Drake alliance at the merge.

During 1933, two Japanese fishermen discovered a breeding ground of sea snakes around the island. It was believed that the locals were taught by the Japanese on how to catch the sea snakes, process the skins and even how to deal with snake bites. The Island of Gato was previously under the administrative part of the Province of Masbate in Bicol Region of the Philippines but is more near to Daanbantayan. The supervision of the island started during 1997, when Daanbantayan passed a resolution declaring the island as a sea snake and fish sanctuary and assigning the Cebu State College of Science and Technology - College of Fisheries, Daanbantayan Campus which is now Cebu Technological University to safeguard and develop the island for research purposes.

The Snake-class vessels commenced operations in late 1944 and operated from bases at Darwin, Morotai, New Guinea, the Philippines and Borneo. Four of the class (Tiger Snake, Black Snake, Sea Snake and River Snake) undertook operations in Japanese territory, and these ships completed only eleven missions before the end of the war. Some Snake-class junks were also used to deploy ‘Z’ unit commando operatives with folboats; namely, HMAS River Snake landed a group with the aid of folboats in Portuguese Timor on 23 April 1945 for long-term intelligence during Operation Suncharlie. HMAS Black Snake in 1945 On 26 April 1945 a party of nine were deployed from HMAS Black Snake off the west coast of Maloe Island using folboats.

The Sea Nymphs supported All About Eve on their "Ultraviolet" tour of 1992. The Sea Nymphs were briefly reactivated in 1998 and reissued their "Appealing to Venus" single on CD. The band played a Radio 1 John Peel Session on 4 October 1998 (performing "Eating A Heart Out", "Lilly White's Party", "The Sea Ritual" and "Sea Snake Beware"), which was re-broadcast as a "classic Peel Session" on BBC Radio 6 on 4 May 2009. Drake had claimed that material for at least one more Sea Nymphs album had been recorded, but that the trio had not yet got round to finishing it off and releasing it, but second album On The Dry Land finally saw a release at the end of 2016.

The Sundarbans National Park is home to olive ridley turtle, hawksbill turtle, green turtle, sea snake, dog-faced water snake, estuarine crocodile, chameleon, king cobra, Russell's viper, house gecko, monitor lizard, pythons, common krait, green vine snake, checkered keelback and rat snake. The river terrapin, Indian flap- shelled turtle (Lissemys punctata), peacock soft-shelled turtle (Trionyx hurum), yellow monitor, Asian water monitor, and Indian python. Fish and amphibians found in the Sundarbans include sawfish, butter fish, electric ray, common carp, silver carp, barb, river eels, starfish, king crab, fiddler crab, hermit crab, prawn, shrimps, Gangetic dolphins, skipper frogs, common toads and tree frogs. One particularly interesting fish is the mudskipper, a gobioid that climbs out of the water into mudflats and even climbs trees.

Among the animals mimicked are lion fish (the octopus holds its arms out radially to mimic the fish's spines), sea snake (hiding 6 of its arms, it holds the remaining 2 parallel to each other), jellyfish (by inflating its mantle and trailing its arms behind it), and zebra sole (holding all 8 arms behind it as it uses its siphon to swim). The octopus' mimicry of flatfish may be its preferred guise; in a period of 5 days nearly 500 instances of flatfish mimicry were seen. Not only does the mimic octopus use its ability to defend from predators, it also uses aggressive mimicry to approach wary prey, for example mimicking a crab as an apparent mate, only to devour its deceived suitor. The mimic octopus retains the ability to camouflage with its sandy environment.

As an adult, D. fascicularis lives attached to a float made either of natural flotsam or of a cement it secretes itself, which has a texture like that of expanded polystyrene foam. It is the only barnacle to produce its own gas-filled float. The cyprid larvae are planktonic, and must attach to a float for metamorphosis into the adult form, but the adults are eventually capable of using their own float, sometimes forming aggregations of many individuals attached to a single float. Among the floats used by adult buoy barnacles are pellets of tar, seaweeds, plastic debris, driftwood, feathers, cranberries, cuttlefish bone, the "by-the-wind-sailor" Velella velella, seagrass leaves, Styrofoam, seeds, and even apples; they have even been known to colonise the backs of turtles and the sea snake Pelamis platurus.

Some colubrid snakes such as the Formosa kukri snake Oligodon formosanus specialise in egg predation. Egg predation by snakes is rarely opposed, but the Asian long- tailed skink Eutropis longicaudata aggressively protects its eggs from the Formosa kukri snake. Egg-eating snakes such as the marbled sea snake Aipysurus eydouxii have atrophied venom glands; this has been explained as an evolutionary consequence of their diet, since venom is not required to subdue their prey, unlike the case in their venomous and conventionally predatory ancestors. The aquatic piscicolid leech Cystobranchus virginicus is an egg predator; it may be an obligate egg-feeder as it has not been seen feeding on an adult but has been found in the nests of a variety of species of North American freshwater fish of the genera Campostoma and Moxostoma.

The meaning of the images on the vase is unclear, and none of the many theories put forward has been found generally satisfactory. They fall into two main groups: mythological and historical, though a historical interpretation of a myth is also a possibility. Historical interpretations focus on Augustus, his family and his rivals, especially given the quality and expense of the object, and the somewhat remote neo-classicism of the style, which compares with some Imperial gemstone cameos featuring Augustus and his family with divine attributes, such as the Gemma Augustea, the Great Cameo of France and the Blacas Cameo (the last also in the British Museum). Interpretations of the portrayals have included that of a marine setting (due to the presence of a ketos or sea-snake), and of a marriage theme/context, as the vase may have been a wedding gift.

Smoke rising from fires in the London docks, following bombing on 7 September The first deliberate air raids on London were mainly aimed at the Port of London, causing severe damage. Late in the afternoon of 7 September 1940, the Germans began Operation London (Unternehmen Loge) (the codename for London) and Seeschlange (Sea Snake), the air offensives against London and other industrial cities. Loge continued for 57 nights.Bungay 2000, p. 313. A total of 348 bombers and 617 fighters took part in the attack.Bungay 2000, p. 309.Shores 1985, p. 52. Initially the change in strategy caught the RAF off- guard and caused extensive damage and civilian casualties. Some 107,400 gross tons of shipping was damaged in the Thames Estuary and 1,600 civilians were casualties.Hooton 1997, p. 26. Of this total around 400 were killed.Stansky 2007, p. 95.

The chamberlain, the Salnitro bear, is at the center of this process: distracting Leonzio's attention with the construction of a monument in his honor, Salnitro opens a gambling den (in which Leonzio surprises his son Tonio) and organizes wild parties in a hidden palace, then stealing from Professor De Ambrosiis a second magic wand that he had built for himself. The chamberlain, in his thirst for power, comes to mortally wound Leonzio when he, along with his faithful, goes out to sea to fight a terrible sea snake that threatens the city; But Salnitro is immediately killed by the bear Jasmine, the only one to have noticed his machinations. On his deathbed King Leonzio asks the bears to leave the city and the riches that have corrupted them and to return to the mountains, where they will find peace of mind; animals respect his will, abandoning men forever.

From the same book, a certain character said, "in the sea of Hachijō, Zushū (now Hachijō-jima, Tokyo, there are what one might think are small eel, but it is actually an eel-like creature that goes around in a loop, and since it moves without eyes or a mouth, so when it gets caught on the bow of a ship, it is not moving by extending itself, but rather revolving around". In the entry "ayakashi" in Toriyama Sekien's Konjaku Hyakki Shūi, there is a drawing of a large sea snake, but it was drawn as ikuchi, an ayakashi (strange phenomenon of the sea). During the present Heisei period, there have been hypotheses proposed that they are not strange fish, but rather giant sea snakes, or that they are humans who have drowned and want others to join them. Sekien's yōkai drawing resemble a sea serpent, a cryptid, some have identified them to be the same.