Stephen S. Hall

It depends on where you live. In the United States, it's roughly five people a year die from snakebite. In India, nearly 60,000 people die from snakebite. So it's a very dire public health issue there.

It depends on where you live. In the United States, it's roughly five people a year die from snakebite. In India, nearly 60,000 people die from snakebite. So it's a very dire public health issue there.

It depends on where you live. In the United States, it's roughly five people a year die from snakebite. In India, nearly 60,000 people die from snakebite. So it's a very dire public health issue there.

It's a vertebrate, which means that it has a backbone, but other than that, it doesn't resemble many other vertebrates, which include us and other mammals and birds and so on. It's... truly unique in part because of the fact that it does not have legs, even though it did have legs tens of millions of years ago.

It's a vertebrate, which means that it has a backbone, but other than that, it doesn't resemble many other vertebrates, which include us and other mammals and birds and so on. It's... truly unique in part because of the fact that it does not have legs, even though it did have legs tens of millions of years ago.

It's a vertebrate, which means that it has a backbone, but other than that, it doesn't resemble many other vertebrates, which include us and other mammals and birds and so on. It's... truly unique in part because of the fact that it does not have legs, even though it did have legs tens of millions of years ago.

It kind of turned them back in because it found out that it could find its way into almost any habitat or any narrow space, any covert hiding place very easily because it didn't have legs and arms to manipulate. So it actually turned out to be a very good adaptation for self-protection. They range in size from three inches to 30 feet. They can live up to three decades. They can eat every day.

It kind of turned them back in because it found out that it could find its way into almost any habitat or any narrow space, any covert hiding place very easily because it didn't have legs and arms to manipulate. So it actually turned out to be a very good adaptation for self-protection. They range in size from three inches to 30 feet. They can live up to three decades. They can eat every day.

It kind of turned them back in because it found out that it could find its way into almost any habitat or any narrow space, any covert hiding place very easily because it didn't have legs and arms to manipulate. So it actually turned out to be a very good adaptation for self-protection. They range in size from three inches to 30 feet. They can live up to three decades. They can eat every day.

Some of them don't eat but one meal a year. And they are adapted to virtually every environment on the planet Earth except Antarctica. They can live in Saltwater, seawater, deserts, jungles, rainforests, swamps, high altitude, sea level altitude, temperate climates, equatorial climates. And they're cold-blooded, which means in all these different environments, they're basically...

Some of them don't eat but one meal a year. And they are adapted to virtually every environment on the planet Earth except Antarctica. They can live in Saltwater, seawater, deserts, jungles, rainforests, swamps, high altitude, sea level altitude, temperate climates, equatorial climates. And they're cold-blooded, which means in all these different environments, they're basically...

Some of them don't eat but one meal a year. And they are adapted to virtually every environment on the planet Earth except Antarctica. They can live in Saltwater, seawater, deserts, jungles, rainforests, swamps, high altitude, sea level altitude, temperate climates, equatorial climates. And they're cold-blooded, which means in all these different environments, they're basically...

able to gauge the temperature and warm themselves enough to maintain metabolism, even though they can't generate their own heat.

able to gauge the temperature and warm themselves enough to maintain metabolism, even though they can't generate their own heat.

able to gauge the temperature and warm themselves enough to maintain metabolism, even though they can't generate their own heat.

People detest snakes for the most part. There have been kind of informal surveys, you know, what animal do you most detest? And snakes almost always top the list. Spiders rank high but never quite surpass snakes in their degree of loathing. One of the things that's really interesting is that this loathing is attached to fear, but it's different from fear. And it was not always the case.

People detest snakes for the most part. There have been kind of informal surveys, you know, what animal do you most detest? And snakes almost always top the list. Spiders rank high but never quite surpass snakes in their degree of loathing. One of the things that's really interesting is that this loathing is attached to fear, but it's different from fear. And it was not always the case.

People detest snakes for the most part. There have been kind of informal surveys, you know, what animal do you most detest? And snakes almost always top the list. Spiders rank high but never quite surpass snakes in their degree of loathing. One of the things that's really interesting is that this loathing is attached to fear, but it's different from fear. And it was not always the case.

So, one of the things that's been fascinating to me is to go back and see how ancient cultures, when we're talking about Egyptian culture, Greek culture, and antiquity, snakes were really prized as animals that... that were kind of messengers and intermediaries between humans and nature. They played a part in origin myths in ancient Egypt, for example.

So, one of the things that's been fascinating to me is to go back and see how ancient cultures, when we're talking about Egyptian culture, Greek culture, and antiquity, snakes were really prized as animals that... that were kind of messengers and intermediaries between humans and nature. They played a part in origin myths in ancient Egypt, for example.