For a group of legless animals, these reptiles have adapted to a surprising number of waters and terrains. But just in case you were wondering, here are all the places with no snakes
The Arctic and Antarctica may be obvious snake-free places, but islands like Ireland and Hawaii are also on the list of all the places snakes won't go.Snakes are sneaky. In their 150 million-odd years on this planet, they’ve managed to slither their way into most corners of the world. But Saint Patrick can’t take credit for eliminating our scaly friends from any of them.. Other regions are simply too frigid for them.
As an island, Hawaii is more representative of why most countries without snakes have gotten so lucky: They’re geographically isolated. Not all islands are devoid of snakes, of course. Polynesia is covered in them, Madagascar has plenty, and the Caribbean is home to many as well. Ilha da Queimada Grande, a tiny blip of land off the coast of Brazil, has roughlyand is the exclusive home to one of the deadliest snakes in the world, the golden lancehead viper. It’s so dangerous there, the government mostly doesn’t allow humans to set foot there.
Terrestrial snake data based on Ernst and Cogger et al. ; sea snakes data based on Ernst , Campbell , Phillips , and Spawls . Adapted from work by
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