With more than 10,000 nerve fibers, the clitoris has the most nerve endings in the female body and is the uppermost component of women’s orgasms. A new study reveals that some female snakes also have the clitoris as other females do.Led by La Trobe University, the University of Adelaide, and the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, researchers describe their completion of a first-ever anatomical description of the clitoris (hemiclitores) in female snakes.The study was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.In comparison to their male counterparts, female genitalia is strikingly understudied, which restricts academic understanding of sexual reproduction in vertebrates like snakes and lizards, said in the press release.“It opens up new questions about the dynamics of snake mating and initiates new conversations about a whole other side of the story that we’ve been missing, which is the female anatomy,” Dr. Jenna Crowe-Riddell said, co-author and Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuroecology at La Trobe University.“When (Megan […]
Snakes have clitorises, scientists reveal for the first time
