In deserts, jungles and swamps around the world, snakes are waging a biochemical war against their prey. When a snake displays its fangs, it’s showing off one of evolution’s greatest weapons. This is ...
High-speed video helped researchers to get close-ups of the attack strategies of three snake families. By Ari Daniel Venomous snakes inhabit a different perceptual world than we do. “Before the mammal ...
Scientists have uncovered a startling split in the venom of Australia’s Eastern Brown Snake. In the south, bites cause rock-solid blood clots, while in the north, they trigger flimsy clots that ...
An antivenom using antibodies from a llama and an alpaca can neutralize venom from some of the world’s most venomous snakes, according to a study published today in Nature 1. When administered to mice ...
A wave of fresh science is challenging a century-old treatment and offering hope to the people snakebites harm most—often far from hospitals and help A rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus) in Hluhluwe, ...
A University of Queensland study suggests the antivenom given to people bitten by Eastern Brown Snakes may not be as effective as it could be, prompting a review of hospital cases. Professor Bryan Fry ...
People bitten by a black mamba, a venomous snake that lives in central and southern Africa, have just hours to live. The snake’s venom disrupts nerves and muscles, and eventually paralyses the lungs ...
From rubber tappers in Liberia to sugar cane farmers in South Africa, bites from venomous snakes are a constant worry. 1 In sub-Saharan Africa—which is home to green and black mambas, spitting cobras, ...
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