Snakes don’t have lips, they can't lap up water, and they don’t grab mouthfuls of water and tip their heads back to swallow, so how do they drink? Turns out, some snakes have sponge-mouths that literally soak up water! Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: doi.org/10.1002/jez.1710 doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13739-7_14 doi.org/10.1002/jez.1402720308 doi.org/10.1002/ar.22860 doi.org/10.2307/1447246 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10862729 doi.org/10.1017/S0094837300004310 doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1993.tb02663.x public.wsu.edu/~kkardong/Web%20of%20KVK_06b/Publications/Drinking%20BTS95.pdf Images: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcQtM_ZJ_Zo commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cottonmouths_(12676608314).jpg www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXPhH3TenBo commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agkistrodon_piscivorus_piscivorus_CDC.png

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