Sea snakes are a group of creatures that live their entire lives in saltwater. Sea snakes have upward-facing nostrils with valves that can be closed back, and after inhaling air, they can close their nostrils and dive underwater for up to 10 minutes. The surface of the body is covered with scales, and underneath the scales is a thick skin that prevents seawater infiltration and loss of body fluids. The salt glands under the tongue have the function of expelling excess salt that enters the body with food. Small sea snakes are half a meter long and large sea snakes can reach about 3 meters. They inhabit the coastal offshore, especially along semi-saline estuaries, and feed on fish. Except for a very few sea snakes that lay eggs, the rest lay young, ovoviviparous.

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In the world's oceans there are about 50 kinds of sea snakes, China's offshore production of large?0 for species. Sea snakes are a kind of extant reptiles, with the turtle order of species of sea turtles and so on, become the ancient reptiles continue to this day. Sea snakes one of the world's oldest and longest-lived animals in the late Mesozoic Era 70 million to 230 million years ago. Sea snakes live in a pure, unpolluted environment, all purely natural and wild, and cannot be farmed artificially.

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Sea snakes and land snakes were originally a family, and were transferred to the sea to settle down due to environmental changes. The sea snake's tail in order to adapt to life in the sea, into a flat paddle shape, its soft slender body wave-like bending forward, swimming freely in the water. The head of the sea snake is very small, and it often sticks its head out of the water to breathe when it swims. It has a flap inside the nostril, can close automatically, diving off the flap can prevent seawater into the nasal cavity. Sea snakes also have sharp teeth, ready to strike.

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Sea snakes are great divers. Sea snakes stay on the surface of the water for a very short time, each time the depth of dozens of meters, diving time up to dozens of minutes, what makes the sea snake in such a short period of time to store a large amount of oxygen to dive? It is still a mystery. However, some people believe that the sea snake has a great capacity of lungs, and dive process it can regulate a variety of vital organs, reduce oxygen consumption, at the same time its skin can help breathing, and can be obtained by the rapid transformation of oxygen, to maintain the body's needs in the dive. It seems that the mystery of the sea serpent's dive has yet to be confirmed. Reprinted by www.zgnbw.net

Sea snakes can extract a variety of active enzymes. These active enzymes can be used in medicine and scientific research. The new analgesic developed by using sea serpentin has a good analgesic effect on trigeminal neuralgia, sciatica and other intractable nerve pain. In addition, it also has obvious analgesic effects on severe pain caused by malignant tumors. The analgesic made from sea snakes, compared with the analgesic drug morphine, is popular because it has a long analgesic time and is not addictive, although it has a slightly slower onset of action. The traditional method of treating rheumatoid arthritis, lumbar and back pain, muscle numbness and other diseases with sea snakes in China is to put the live snake into wine, soak it to death, then take it out, clean it, seal it in 60-degree wine for more than half a year and take a small amount each time while rubbing your body with the wine. Sea snake meat and eggs are good tonics. Stewing sea snake meat or sea snake eggs can cure malnutrition and has the effect of strengthening the body. Sea snake urchin can expel wind and invigorate blood, and snake oil can also care for the skin, making it a good skin care product.

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