Do Snakes have Ears?

Snakes don't have ears that we can see. They don't have ear holes either. So you'd never know from looking at a snake that it has ears. But snakes do have a kind of ear that's inside their head. It's located near the lower jaw. A snake can hear noises but not very well. It doesn't hear noises coming through the air as humans do. What a snake can hear is vibrations that come through the ground. These sound waves pass from the ground to the bones of the jaw and then to the bones of the ear. That's the way the snake picks up sounds. Snakes do not appear to have ears. There are many animals that don't appear to have ears but that really do have them.