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 * ... that the Balkan whip snake hibernates in winter, with several snakes sometimes sharing a single site?
 * ... that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Sanajeh preyed on hatchling sauropod dinosaurs at nesting sites in India?
 * ...that although the green anaconda is the modern world's largest snake at up to 9 m long and 227 kg, the extinct Titanoboa could be up to 12.8 m long and 1135 kg?
 * ... that the snake Philodryas baroni emits a foul-smelling substance from the cloaca when frightened?
 * ... that the recently discovered smallest snake in the world, Leptotyphlops carlae (pictured), is thought to be near the evolutionary limit of how small any snake could be?