They got a big, snaky gift.

Greg Schneider holds a jar containing snakes in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (AP/Mike Householder)
Greg Schneider studies part of the museum’s new gift—salamanders. (AP/Mike Householder)
Please do NOT pass the pickled snakes! (AP/Mike Householder)
Greg Schneider reaches into a jar of dead snakes. Would you? (AP/Mike Householder)
The donated snakes came from Oregon State University. (AP/Mike Householder)

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They got a big, snaky gift.

Yum! Pickles! Wait. Look again. Those are not pickles. They are dead snakes!

Scientists got a gift. How many snake jars do they have now? It is time to sort and count.

Pray: Thank God for people who study animals in His world. They teach us about His work.

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Greg Schneider studies the snakes in these jars. He works at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. That museum now has a huge reptile and amphibian collection. No one in the United States has more. Oregon State University gave the museum many of the critters this fall. Would you enjoy such a gift? Would your parents? Some jars have snakes and their babies. These will help scientists answer a question. How do parent snakes pass down traits to their offspring?

God made “everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind.” (Genesis 1:25)