Schmidt in 1929 with a two-toed sloth
Schmidt died after being bitten by a juvenile boomslang snake.
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A snake skeleton consists primarily of the skull, vertebrae, and ribs, with only vestigial remnants of the limbs.
Karl Patterson Schmidt
…lab for identification. Schmidt wrongly believed that the snake could not produce a fatal dose because of its age and the fact that boomslangs are rear-fanged. The bite occurred because he held the snake in an unsafe manner, "too far behind the head." Boomslang venom causes disseminated intravascular coagulation…
Skeleton of a snake at the Natural History Museum
Lateral view of the skull of a Burmese python, with visible kinetic joints labeled. Red = highly mobile, green = slightly mobile, blue = immobile.
An aglyphous snake. A Burmese python skull (Python bivittatus)
An opisthoglyphous snake. A hognose snake skull (Heterodon nasicus)