Fact 9: How can a snake swallow big prey?

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Fact 9: How can a snake swallow big prey?


Now this answer may surprise you to know that they don't dislocate their jaw because the jaws are not fused together by bone but the bottom jaw is connected to the skull on both sides at the rear by the quadrate bone this aids the jaws flexibility without unhinging. Now the lower bit of the jaw is split in two and connected by one stretchy ligament, so they can open their jaw really wide and this allows the jaw to stretch outward and move independently.  This helps and means snakes can swallow big prey.


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