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Creature Feature: The Drama Noodle Oscar goes to … the hognose! If you grew up east of the Rockies, your grandmother may have told tales of deadly “spreading adders,” dangerous serpents that would spread their heads wide when approached and chase down unsuspecting children. These quasi-mythical crea
Creature Feature: The Drama Noodle Oscar goes to … the hognose! If you grew up east of the Rockies, your grandmother may have told tales of deadly “spreading adders,” dangerous serpents that would spread their heads wide when approached and chase down unsuspecting children. These quasi-mythical creatures rank alongside the Jersey Devil and the Chupacabra for their legendary status, with a glaring exception: the mythos surrounding the “spread-head,” “spreadnatter,” or “blow viper” are based firmly on a real, though harmless animal — the eastern hog-nosed snake.

Eastern Hellbender Craft

Common snapping turtle, these turtles range throughout most of the

Common snapping turtle, these turtles range throughout most of the

Snake playing dead This is a video of an Eastern Hognose snake

Happy Halloween Everyone! 🧡🎃🧡 I drew this a couple years ago

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Strange Animals Podcast

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Eastern Hellbender Craft

Eastern Hognose Plays Dead

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Herpetologist Highlight2 – Herpetologists' League

It was once common myth that these mud snakes possessed a stinger

Herpetologist Highlight2 – Herpetologists' League