#snake bones

[bad-science]

Got a lovely new specimen today :)

[katarinanavane]

Curio collection earrings! Just listed a backlog of earrings (link in bio if you want one!) Featuring doll eyes, snake bones, beetle shells, sea urchin spines, and more!

[schizzodoll]

Snake Spine Pendant 🐍

[sandwichedbread]

just found out about snake skeletons and they disturb me

(photo under cut because they genuinely make me uncomfortable lol)

THEY ARE ALL RIBS. WHAT THE FUCK

[witchcatcreations]

Witch Wisdom

Skull of owl, feather of crow, crystal quartz and moon phase glow

Sprig of belladonna, mugwort, & rue Snake, deer, and feline too

I hope you enjoy this pyrography piece!

Made to order slots for this piece will be opening up in my shop next week, along with more goodies! Keep all your eyes out 00.00

[lowlifefairy]

i’ve also made a bone rosary and it’s like the most precious thing to me literally ever

bone rosary by vampyrgrl

[cupcakeshakesnake]

The Collector plays Undertale

[jjadmanii]

film adaptations are all fun and games until ppl start watching the movie without reading the book,,then it just becomes the 10th circle of dante’s hell

[xx-pixiegutz-xx]

I am simply ✨obsessed✨

[aqua-regia009]

Ouroboros, 2013. — Lauren Marx (American, b.1991)

https://www.laurenmarx.com/

[katarinanavane]

Two shadowboxes using the same wooden box, but very different!

[i-lavabean]

Raj deserved a Hades art style

[skull-hoarder]

I'm finally done

The 3.74 meter reticulated python is finally finished, I am extremely proud, I feel like a peacock

There were probably more than a thousand pieces and I still have a 2.5 meter burmese degreasing and two other snakes in the freezer waiting to be cleaned and articulated

[tanuki-kimono]

Great example of how men traditional kimono fashion is all about hidden features: this most formal black haori (see the crests) has a lining depicting a nozarashi (weather beaten bones in a field, here a skull) with lovely snake.

In modern kimono fashion, some fashionista actually sometimes wear pieces like those inside-out to diplay the rad linings!

[allbluegem]

All 30 illustrations for The Magnus Protocol Season 1. Utterly loved doing this project, I’m hoping to get them all printed into a zine.

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

You probably have already answered this at some point already, but are snakes all neck or all intestine? Are there more sections to a snake's body besides then The Head and The Tube, and if so what would those be?

Really good question!

Here's a good diagram of what's going on in there. As you can see, it's mostly lung and digestive system. Snakes are mostly torso, so that's a lot of space dedicated to respiration and digestion. You can see that snakes have the same organs we do, just enlongated, and there tends to be only one of most paired organs (like lungs, snakes only have one full lung and the left lung is typically vestigial and always at least smaller).

What exactly counts as a snake's neck depends on who you ask and what definitions you're using, but in general snakes have pretty short necks.

The traditional view is that a snake's neck is only those few vertebrae between the skull and torso, before the ribs start.

Other herpetologists define the neck as the vertebrae above the heart, roughly analogous to where the collarbone would be in other animals, and others define it based on function. If it has super-stretchy skin (as snake necks must) and the snake tends to hold it in a different way than the rest of the body, that's the neck. In these perspectives, the neck is between the lines I've marked here:

Then there's the tail! The tail starts just after the cloaca (that's the all-purpose opening snakes use for passing waste, breeding, etc.). Snakes have short tails compared to their bodies, and the tail itself is used as convenient storage space for sexual organs. The tail is easy to spot as it doesn't have any ribs.

The tail starts right after the cloaca, so it's easy to see on live snakes, too.