Very cool: corn snake embryology

[bapkate]

Sorry if I missed this the first time around, but I thought this was so cool! It's an article on how corn snakes develop:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/snake_segmentation.php

For the non-readers, here's a chart with step-by-step embryo development

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/23/snakeseg_lg.php

For those of you wondering just whats going on in those little eggs

 

[airenlow]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing Katherine!

 

[oneirogenesis]

Reading stuff like this reminds me of exactly why I love snakes so much. Every time I learn something new about them it blows my mind. Thank you for sharing!