Snakes Team to Be the Winner

The Burmese Python at the Florida Museum has 872 ribs and vertebrae, which is four times as many bones as a human or most other mammals for that matter. So what's most interesting isn't just that they have this many bones, but how they have thismany bones. The giraffes have the same number of sort of cervical vertebrae in their neck as humans, and as mice, which is just seven,. And they're just longer and bigger.

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