Jim Shea The Hartford Courant
Shedding skin is normal in animals, even in humans albeit slowly and continuously. Snake shedding is impressive because it happens all at once. One of the primary reasons for shedding is to facilitate further growth. After a certain point, a snake’s skin cannot grow any further. A growing ...
(roughly 14.4–15.1 feet) long. Historically, two additional forms, thebeni (E. beniensis) and thedark-spotted anaconda (E. deschauenseei), which are closely related toE. notaeus, have been classified as separate species; however, growing morphological and genetic evidence suggests that both ...