How to Use sea snake in a Sentence

sea snake

noun
  • The Dubois' sea snake holds the title of the most venomous sea snake tested.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Palaeophis colossaeus is the largest sea snake to ever have existed.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • This highly aggressive species kills more humans than any other sea snake.
    — Myles Karp, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Forrest Galante has a theory that deadly sea snakes might have something to do with it.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • This ancestral snake species lived on the land and would later evolve into all snake species, including sea snakes.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 July 2023
  • That includes the olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis, pictured here.
    — Alison MacKey, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2019
  • Forrest Galante believes that deadly sea snakes are turning these apex predators into prey.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • Oil that is on the surface is harmful to animals that come up to the surface to breathe, such as dolphins, sea turtles and sea snakes.
    — Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
  • During sea snake mating season, females often encourage males to give chase.
    — Gabrielle Duncan, PEOPLE.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Forrest Galante has a theory that deadly sea snakes are turning these apex predators into prey!
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 26 July 2023
  • Sharks, sea snakes, and other wildlife will make preparations to escape becoming trapped or hurt as massive storms approach a coast.
    — Popular Science, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Starfish are the color of warm skies at midnight; sea snakes, banded in silver and shimmering black, wriggle towards the soft cyan sea.
    — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The team found that the annulated sea snake now has four intact copies of the opsin gene SWS1.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 July 2023
  • The research team advises divers to remain still and avoid retaliation when approached by a sea snake.
    — Gabrielle Duncan, PEOPLE.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Despite the potency of sea snake venom, fatal encounters between sea snakes and humans are rare.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Unlike a sea snake, which uses its whole sinuous body to swim, this robot uses modular pieces of itself to maneuver.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 12 May 2021
  • The Eelume robot addresses this challenge by mimicking the flexible movement of eels and sea snakes.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026
  • At night, the beams of our lights revealed slithering sea snakes, translucent cuttlefish, and striped orange and yellow nudibranchs, slugs that looked like jewels.
    — James Sturz, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Clown fish, parrotfish, groupers and snappers lay eggs and hide from predators in the reef’s nooks and crannies, and their presence draws eels, sea snakes, octopuses and even sharks.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • But his game ended abruptly after a second, very real bite from a black and white banded sea snake, also known as a sea krait, which forced his medical evacuation.
    — Terry Terrones, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike their terrestrial cousins, sea snakes are largely understudied.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Sea turtles, dolphins, humpback whales, sea snakes and sharks glide through this underwater paradise -- one of the world's most complex and fragile natural ecosystems.
    — Esan Swan, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
  • An El Niño creates a much narrower band of warm water, Leising explained, bringing species such as tropical sea snakes or red crabs up the coast.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But several studies published within the past few years have shown a link between fresh water availability and the distribution of sea snake populations.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2014
  • Robotic sea snake Maintaining underwater infrastructure such as oil platforms and subsea pipelines is both costly and risky.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026
  • Many are potentially dangerous, including wolves, grizzly bears, komodo dragons, and reptiles such as sea snakes and cottonmouths.
    — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Scientists have recently started questioning whether marine vertebrates, such as the sea snake, truly live independently of fresh water.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2014
  • Wunderpus and mimic octopuses are the ultimate quick-change artists, hiding in plain sight by impersonating everything from rocks and seaweed to sea snakes and lionfish.
    — Eric Scigliano, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
  • So instead of reproducing a sea snake’s hypnotic winding movements—a complicated coordination between muscle and bone—the researchers opted for thrusters that push and steer the robot.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 12 May 2021
  • The strait provides nesting grounds for sea turtles, and the coast of Oman is home to the critically endangered and nonmigratory Arabian humpback whales, with dugongs and sea snakes in the surrounding waters.
    — Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026

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