Those living in Australia lean to have a more relaxed glide slope towards snakes , spiders , and creepy crawlies . But encounter 43 unknown reptile eggs in a sandpit at a school might even be too much for those down under . This discovery was made worse when some suggested the eggs belonged to the highly venomous eastern brown snake .
FAWNA , a military volunteer wildlife mathematical group , were called to the school in Laurieton , about 350 kilometers ( 217 stat mi ) north of Sydney , after a student playing in the sanddug up 12 reptilian eggs . After further excavations , the wildlife radical managed to reclaim a sum of 43 eggs buried in the sand , which they after removed .
So are the eggs from a deadly snake or something far moreordinary ?
Initial reports said the eggs probably belong to the eastern brown snake in the grass ( Pseudonaja textilis ) . The snake can be plant along the easterly coast of Australia , from the far north of Queensland , through Brisbane , Sydney , and even Adelaide . It is also the secondly - most venomous terrestrial snake known , with the venom causing looseness of the bowels , paralysis , and cardiac failure . luckily , the death pace from untreated bites is actually relatively scummy at10 to 20 pct .
Yet following issue of the egg images , societal media commence to cast doubt on the averment they belonged to such a deadly critter , with some pointing out that it is unlikely a snake – famously bereft of any limbs – could dig down into the sand so as to bury them .
Instead , some are now suggest that the testicle were laid by the far more benignAustralian water dragon . This vulgar lounge lizard is well known for the female ’s habit of digging burrow into soft or sandy soil , typically in patches exposed to the sun for keep the eggs warm . Not unlike a sandpit , say .
Initially , snake experts did little to quench the confusion besiege the discovery . A wildlife group evenposted an updatethat “ when we find the eggs we carefully tick off the egg over and found that they contained what appeared to be Snake River hatchling . We were severalise was there were a span of sighting of large brown snake behind the area and all we could suspect is that they were brownish snake eggs . ”
Most expert , however , now seem to be of the opinion that if they were indeed find buried in the moxie , they most in all probability belong to a water dragon .
