Snakes
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Snakes hold a special niche in nature. Learn more how snakes live.
Snakes have long, scaly bodies with no arms or legs. They live almost everywhere on earth and very few are poisonous. On this Science Trek, host Joan Cartan-Hansen and her guests, Charles Peterson, and Frank Lundburg, answer students’ questions about snakes.
Science Trek is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV
Major Funding Provided by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and the Idaho National Laboratory
Snakes
Special | 28m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
Snakes have long, scaly bodies with no arms or legs. They live almost everywhere on earth and very few are poisonous. On this Science Trek, host Joan Cartan-Hansen and her guests, Charles Peterson, and Frank Lundburg, answer students’ questions about snakes.
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