Feathersnake

Feathersnakes are a group of snakes and a family of snakes known as avitapids. Unlike most other snakes on Earth, they are endothermic, meaning they are warm-blooded, while most other snakes are ectothermic, meaning they are cold-blooded, so most snakes are still slugish and needs to be warmed up by the heat of sun and other heat energies. Feathernsnakes, however, can stay active all day long due to their active metabolism and their warm-bloodness, which is one of the feathersnake's advantages over other snakes. Despite this, as the cost of being warm-blooded, they need a large amount of food for their size much like many of the small mammals they prey on. But one of the most distinguishable from any other snakes isn't their warmbloodness and active metabolism, but they have something that all other snakes don't have, feathers. No one knows how did the snakes developed their own bird-like feathers, but it is possible that due to the climate change causing cooler weather during the Oligocene to Pleistocene, when the weather got chilly, these ancestral feathersnakes would had to grew feathers, which were once scales, over time, the feathers provided protection against the cold. Unlike some common species of snakes, which some are venomous, there are no known species of feathersnake that has a venomous bite. Around the world, there are more than 5,000 species of feathersnakes, ranging from the size of a tiny milksnake to the size of a Burmese python, but once, there was a species of giant feathersnake from Pleistocene Australia that was the length of a reticulated python and the weight of a green anaconda, making it the largest feathersnake on Earth. They are found all over the world's continents, except Antarctica, where it is way too cold for feathersnakes to live in.

Various Feathersnake Species (Examples)

 * Common_feathersnake.pngn Feathersnake, a species of feathersnake that is native to areas ranging from southern Mexico to northern Washington state. It is about the size of a diamondback rattlesnake and preys on small mammals, small birds, eggs, snakes, lizards, frogs, and fish. It is native to much of North America's swamps, forests, grasslands, savannas, scrublands, and deserts, but can survive really well in human settlements.


 * Bonysnouted_feathersnake.jpgnouted Feathersnake, a species of feathersnake that is native to Asian rainforests, swamps, and Asian human settlements, but were also introduced accidentally to North American swamps, forests, grasslands, and North American human settlements. They are named due to their bony snouts on the tip of their faces, probably for males headbutting during breeding seasons to win a mate. They prey on small mammals, birds, small lizards, small snakes, frogs, and fish.