The writer is a science commentator There is something otherworldly about snakes. The slithering creatures feature heavily in religion, folklore and mythology: the serpent in the Garden of Eden that tempts Eve to eat forbidden fruit; Medusa, a snake-haired Gorgon cursed with a gaze that turns observers to stone; the Nagas, the half-human, half-cobra beings of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, who dwell in underground palaces.
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