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🗓️ 26 June 2024
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Sleep Tight Science. |
0:15.0 | Did you know that there are over 3,000 different species of snakes? |
0:21.3 | What? That's different species of snakes? What? |
0:22.4 | That's a lot of snakes. |
0:25.2 | And the fastest snake can travel up to 12 miles per hour. |
0:30.6 | Wow! Hello, friends, and welcome back to sleep tight science, a bedtime show that answers the questions you have about science. |
0:56.2 | In this episode, we are going to start to learn all about snakes and try to answer some of |
1:03.1 | the questions that you, our listeners, have submitted about these slithery animals. |
1:10.0 | We are going to learn about them by following along with the story of a little bear named Bernice, |
1:17.1 | who, if you listen to Sleep Tight stories, you might already be familiar with. |
1:23.2 | Bernice has many interests, including science, and Papa Bear and her friends are going to help her learn. |
1:33.8 | Before we continue with our story, let's start learning about snakes. |
1:40.7 | Snakes are long, thin reptiles without arms or legs that evolved from lizards. |
1:48.0 | All snakes are coniferous animals, and many species produce venom, which helps to kill their prey. |
1:56.0 | Being reptiles, they are cold-blooded animals. Lay eggs and have scales. There are over |
2:06.0 | 3,000 different kinds of snakes. They range in size from 4 inches, which is 10 centimeters, to more than 30 feet, or 9 meters long. |
2:20.3 | Snakes can be found on every continent except Antarctica. |
2:25.3 | Some islands like Ireland and New Zealand have no native snakes. |
2:31.3 | Most snakes live on the ground, but some live in trees, in underground tunnels, or even in the ocean. |
2:40.0 | Snake habitats range from tropical rainforests to grasslands to deserts. |
2:47.0 | Snakes may have no limbs, but they are very mobile and agile they can move in different ways |
2:57.0 | for different purposes and they use two methods of movement at the same time the two common methods |
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