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Filmed over nearly four years, the series explores locations from the Himalayas to the Western Pacific, featuring wildlife stories including elephants that have learned to stop buses to steal food in Sri Lanka and sea snakes hunting in partnership with fish.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
There was yet more to see—wild horses and noodle-nosed saiga antelope, coves of turquoise water filled with shipwrecks and sea snakes, and camel caravans on the Turkman border.
—J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2024
Jenny — as the creature affectionately became known — was thought to look like a giant sea snake and was described as anywhere from 25 to 80 feet long.
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2024
These include species of shovel-nosed snakes, which evolved to dig up prey, and species of sea snakes, which swim with a paddlelike tail and snack on prey such as reef fish.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
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First Known Use
1755, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Sea snake.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20snake. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
Medical Definition
sea snake
noun
: any of a family (Hydrophidae) of numerous venomous snakes inhabiting the tropical parts of the Pacific and Indian oceans
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