Snakes
Snake skeleton
Serpentes
A snake skeleton laid out as a wave against a black ground.
Price on request · In stock — Gimenei shopping centre
- Size
- 25 × 6.5 × 40 cm
- Classification
- Osteology, snakes
- Habitat
- Tropical forests and grasslands
- Ref.
- R–0266
A snake skeleton laid out as a living wave on black velvet: hundreds of vertebrae and paired ribs, each in its place. White on black reads as a calligraphic stroke.
Snakes have the most serial skeleton among vertebrates — up to four hundred nearly identical vertebrae. The mounting turns that seriality into ornament.