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The fairly thick layer of skin and muscle hides the bones. Additionally, the ligaments connecting the bones are very flexible, allowing the bones to move easily with the body, so they don't show. However, if you were to hold a snake in your bare hands and press lightly onits back and sides you would feel its bones.

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Snakes do have backbones. They are vertebrates just like all reptiles. However their spines are incredibly flexible. This is essential to their form of locomotion, as well feeding for snakes that kill by constriction.

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First, note that most animals with backbones, including humans, can bend to some degree. The "backbone" of a vertebrate is not a single bone but a series of vertebrae. The ligaments connecting the bones of a snakes spine are very flexible.

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