My dad killed a snake that was in our garage. He placed the snake on a fence and baby snakes came out of it. No shells.
2006-07-20 13:02:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
It looked like a garder snake. That is what we presumed. Still a snake though.
2006-07-20 13:14:25 · update #1
First of all, there are no poisonous snakes, but there are many venomous snakes. The species that give birth to live young are known as viviparous or oviviviparous. Garter snakes are all oviviviparous, meaning they have very thin-shelled eggs while inside the female's body, but hatch before emerging exposed and not enveloped in an egg. There are many species of viviparous venomous snakes in the world, all rattlesnakes, cottonmouths and copperheads are viviparous, meaning they have babies without the development of eggs. Gater snakes are the most harmless and gentle snakes in North America, you should tell your dad not to kill them if possible, just pick them up and toss them outside....simple as that
Good Question!
2006-07-21 01:58:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Some lay eggs and some of course give birth to live ones, I agree with you, a snake is a snake no matter what. They give me the heevy jeevies
2006-07-20 22:15:04 · answer #2 · answered by Moose 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some snakes are viviparous (give live birth instead of snakes coming out of eggs). I don't know which species do or which one you're dealing with. I wouldn't presume that this snake was poisonous.
2006-07-20 20:06:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whether snake give birth or lay eggs has more to do with where they live than whether they are "poisonous" or not. (I am assuming that you are not concerned about its edibility and rather whether it injects venom when it bites, in which case the term to use is "venomous") Snakes that live in cooler climates are much more likely to give birth than lay eggs because eggs take much longer to hatch in a cold climate, leaving them vulnerable to predation, fungus attack and the like. So the eggs are retained in the body so the parent female can put them in the sun and warm them- this has made eggshells obsolete, and in some species has actually lead to placentation. the ammniotic sack that some mammals are born in is the remains of the inner lining of the egg from our distant evolutionary past.
2006-07-20 22:29:40 · answer #4 · answered by bulewo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they come from eggs. The snake might have been ready to lay the eggs when your dad killed it and the eggs cracked when he killed it.
2006-07-20 20:53:13 · answer #5 · answered by Kelly M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some snakes give live birth like the rattle snake and the garter snake.
2006-07-20 20:11:59 · answer #6 · answered by eva diane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Few species of snakes are oviparous and some are viviparous............. i.e. some come out from eggs and some comes out from directly mothers genital area...........
dont worry 90% of snakes in world are non poisonous....... mostly people die becoz of their threating to snakes.......
take care.
2006-07-21 06:39:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they lay eggs like all other snakes.
2006-07-20 20:05:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some hatch their babies in sacs.
2006-07-20 20:08:03 · answer #9 · answered by red69 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋