Ways to Tell a Coral Snake From a Milk Snake

I'm a fan of this one: list over at McSweeneys. It's so true, it's so true.

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I've got a humour piece at McSweeney's today in celebration of Darwin's 200th. Here's a snippet:
Thanks to B. Cohen for sending me this link to an installment of McSweeney's Annals of Science. Oh, the mighty struggle of sperm to fertilize egg! That's just good readin'.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion Of Your Thesis Defense.
When I read pieces like this one (at McSweeney's), it makes me want to make the World's Fair the place to go to at ScienceBlogs when you want to catch up on unicorn stuff. Anyway, here's the first paragraph:

The way I heard it:

Red on yellow kills a fellow.

This is true of the species you can find in the southern and southeastern U.S., but its not true in general. There are some species of Latin American coral snakes (e.g. the himeralli, Micrurus surinamensis) that don't have red on yellow, and can still kill a fellow.