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Published: 2017-11-18 06:17:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 3321; Favourites: 134; Downloads: 28
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As a mammal, your quadrate bone can be found in your middle ear.
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does this mean that snakes biologically can't have a chin then?
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Hahaha maybe it's more like snakes have built-in plastic surgery for their chin?
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I always felt scared watching my snake eat big rats, coz I always worry of the limits to this eating mechanism, like, when will they break???
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Yeah it's pretty crazy to watch! I'm sure there is some limit to it but I suspect (hope???) that they'd just be unable to swallow the prey and would spit it back out before the jaws reach their breaking point.
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Fascinating. Β So the quadrate bone becomes the malleus and incus bones in the middle ear. Β That's just amazing.
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Woahhh another cool informative and educational piece. Thank you very much plus i adore when someone clarifies things about snakes. Great job
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