STEM Saturday Post Promotion #16: Finding cause of death for one of North America's rarest snakes

A rare and secretive rim rock crowned snake was found dead in Key Largo's John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. @sarahjay1 tells us how herpetologists figured out what happened to it.

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Welcome to our 16^th STEM Saturday post promotion on the Steem blockchain. In celebration of the occasion, I have once again promoted a Popular STEM post to the top of the /promoted list.

This marks the sixteenth consecutive Saturday that our community has held the top of the /promoted page.

As previously announced, the post will be pinned in our community, and it will remain pinned until payout time or until it drops out of the top-2 promoted posts for our community.

The Post

This week's promoted post is The rarest snake in North America was found… choked to death on a centipede from @sarahjay1. (Too bad @natator88 isn't here any more. I think this article would be right up her alley.)

As with prior weeks, the post was passed through three separate online plagiarism checks before promotion.

Here is the post at the top of /promoted:

Promotion Cost

In order to promote the post, I burned 0.625 SBD (equivalent to about 2.82 STEEM) by sending it to @null with the memo field set to: @sarahjay1/the-rarest-snake-in-north-america-was-found-choked-to-death-on-a-centipede.

The Community

The Popular STEM community is intended to be a place for accessible STEM conversations (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). If you have an interest in STEM topics, please come join us!

About STEM Saturday

If members would like to have your own STEM content considered for future promotions, please come join us and start contributing. I don't know how long I'll be continuing the tradition, but while I do, here are the minimum requirements for consideration (subject to change without notice ;-).

1. Original, plagiarism-free content
2. Minimum word count: currently 300 words, but this may be adjusted.
3. The content must not be cross-posted on other web sites or blockchains. Correct use of the #steemexclusive tag is encouraged.
4. English language. (sorry, it's the only one I know)
5. Because a post leaves /promoted at payout time, posts created shortly before STEM Saturday may be more likely to be chosen than older posts.

All community members are invited to create original and exclusive content that can be considered for future promotions.

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