Cute Snake tattoos and Meanings

Snake and Rose Tattoo

In addition to looking badass, a snake and rose tattoo also has symbolic significance. Because of their association with love, roses are very traditional and universally popular tattoo designs; when combined with snakes, the meaning is one of overwhelming passion and romantic temptation. An art style in the Gothic or traditional style would complement the snake-and-rose design well.

Small Snake Tattoo

When you're looking for a minimal or discreet tattoo, a small snake tattoo is a great choice. Its small size makes it perfect to place on your finger, hand, or behind your ear. If you want a smaller tattoo, generally opt for black ink and a simpler design, so the ink stands out more and can be touched up easily.

Simple Snake Tattoo

Snake tattoos are one of the most versatile tattoo designs. Adding a snake tattoo to a particular art style, like Japanese irezumi, is equally stunning. If your style is more minimalistic, or you want to have a tattoo that takes less time to apply, consider a simple snake tattoo.

Snake Head Tattoo

Snakehead tattoos are among the most badass tattoo options for men who want to wear intimidating tattoos. By focusing on the fangs and venom, these designs showcase the dangerous predator side of snakes. Snakehead tattoos seem to jump off the skin due to their energy and movement.

Snake Skeleton Tattoo

Cool and unusual animal tattoos can be made with skeletons. So, if you're considering getting a snake tattoo, why not consider getting a skeleton? A snake skeleton tattoo is more complex to create than other snake tattoos, so find an artist who specializes in anatomical designs. An arm, shoulder, or bicep tattoo with a snake skeleton looks great.

Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes /sɜːrˈpɛntiːz/.[2] Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards.[3] These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae).

Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, and on most smaller land masses; exceptions include some large islands, such as Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, the Hawaiian archipelago, and the islands of New Zealand, as well as many small islands of the Atlantic and central Pacific oceans.[4] Additionally, sea snakes are widespread throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans. More than twenty families are currently recognized, comprising about 520 genera and about 3,900 species.[5] They range in size from the tiny, 10.4 cm-long (4.1 in) Barbados threadsnake[6] to the reticulated python of 6.95 meters (22.8 ft) in length.[7] The fossil species Titanoboa cerrejonensis was 12.8 meters (42 ft) long.[8] Snakes are thought to have evolved from either burrowing or aquatic lizards, perhaps during the Jurassic period, with the earliest known fossils dating to between 143 and 167 Ma ago.[9][10] The diversity of modern snakes appeared during the Paleocene epoch (c. 66 to 56 Ma ago, after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event). The oldest preserved descriptions of snakes can be found in the Brooklyn Papyrus.

Most species of snake are nonvenomous and those that have venom use it primarily to kill and subdue prey rather than for self-defense. Some possess venom that is potent enough to cause painful injury or death to humans. Nonvenomous snakes either swallow prey alive or kill by constriction.