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Spiders eat snakes around the world, surprising study reveals
North American widow spiders, not tropical tarantulas, have a particular taste for reptiles, according to a sweeping analysis of data across six continents.
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Tropical Snakes Suffer as a Fungus Kills the Frogs They Prey On
Surveys of reptiles in central Panama show the ripple effects of an ecological crisis
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The Snakes That Ate Florida
In the Everglades, everything still looks the same. The waving saw grass, the cypress and pine trees draped with air plants, the high, white clouds parked like dirigibles above their shadows—if you’ve been to the Everglades before, and you go back, you’ll still find these. But now there is also a weird quiet. In the campsites of Everglades National Park, raccoons don’t rattle the trash can lids at four in the morning.
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This Town Comes Alive Once a Year, as Thousands of Snakes Mate
More than 70,000 snakes slither out of dens to breed each spring at a Manitoba wildlife area, and thousands of people just can’t keep away from the writhing show. Just don’t call it an orgy.
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The Man Who's Said 'Bite Me' to 200 Snakes and Survived
Since 2000, Tim Friede, a truck mechanic from Wisconsin, has endured some 200 snakebites and 700 injections of lethal snake venom—all part of a masochistic quest to immunize his body and offer his blood to scientists seeking a universal antivenom. For nearly two decades, few took him seriously. Then a gifted young immunologist stumbled upon Friede on YouTube—and became convinced that he was the key to conquering snakebites forever.
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New snake species in Europe named after a long-forgotten Iron Age kingdom
An international team of scientists identified the snake and its range, which includes Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, and Russia including a small region extending into the corner of Europe. Based on the genetic and morphological data, the researchers were able to say that the Blotched Rat Snake (Elaphe sauromates) is actually comprised of two different species and includes a cryptic species that has been named after the old kingdom of Urartu.
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'Virgin birth': A captive anaconda became pregnant by herself and gave birth to two babies
A female anaconda living in an all-female exhibit gave birth to two babies without sexually reproducing with a male snake, a Massachusetts aquarium recently announced. The 10-foot-long, 30 pound mother — named Anna — gave birth to two babies that appear to be genetically identical to their mother, the New England Aquarium said, citing DNA testing. Anna has never been exposed to an adult male snake, the aquarium said.
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Newly Discovered Snake Can Strike You With Venom Without Even Opening Its Mouth
Hidden in the evergreen forests of Guinea and Liberia, scientists have discovered a new species of snake that can deliver a venomous stab all without even opening its mouth.
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Biologists are one step closer to creating snake venom in the lab
Labs growing replicas of snakes’ venom glands may one day replace snake farms. Researchers in the Netherlands have succeeded in growing mimics of venom-producing glands from multiple species of snakes. Stem cell biologist Hans Clevers of the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, the Netherlands, reported the creation of these organoids on December 10 at a joint meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology and the European Molecular Biology Organization.
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wormo.io
Full Screen Controls Use the mouse to control the snake Click the mouse or space to shoot Hold the mouse or space to boost How to play: The game wormo.io offers different goals that can be realized here.
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Chinese man buys snake online that bites him in ‘suicide attempt’
Bite from many-banded krait hospitalises man in incident media reports claim is an attempt to take his own life, although he later begs doctor to save him. A 25-year-old man is fighting for his life in eastern China after he was bitten by a venomous snake he bought online in what local media described as a suicide attempt.
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Intrepid Grandma Removes 2 Pythons From Barbecue Grill
Today, in things you have to see to believe, please peruse this viral video of a grandmother removing two very large, very resistant pythons from a barbecue grill. In a video shared to social media by Channel 7 News Brisbane, an 81-year-old grandma from Down Under who goes by the name Faye Morgan, wrangles, not just one, but two very large pythons from an outdoor grill before kindly depositing them in a large box. While there was a younger man who held open the box for Morgan, Morgan manages to grab both snakes by herself and skillfully put them in the container without any harm to her or the animals. May we all age so gracefully.
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Baby Snake Preserved In Amber Is Unprecedented Find
A newborn snake, preserved in amber from Myanmar for nearly 100 million years, is a first for the fossil record and reveals how the animals developed.
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First fossilized snake embryo ever discovered rewrites history of ancient snakes
The first-ever discovery of an ancient snake embryo, preserved in 105-million-year-old amber, provides important new information on the evolution of modern snakes, according to a new study led by University of Alberta paleontologists. “This snake is linked to ancient snakes from Argentina, Africa, India and Australia,” explained paleontologist Michael Caldwell, lead author and professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. “It is an important—and until now, missing—component of understanding snake evolution from southern continents, that is Gondwana, in the mid-Mesozoic.”
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A woman went to check her corn — and was swallowed by a python
For the second time in barely more than a year, an Indonesian villager has been swallowed whole by a python. Wa Tiba, 54, left her home on Muna island to visit her cornfield Thursday night, according to the Jakarta Post. The field was about a half mile from her house, surrounded by cliffs, caves and a certain number of reticulated pythons, the longest snakes in the world.
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Man celebrating birthday dies after timber rattlesnake bites him twice
While celebrating his 57th birthday with his wife on an outdoors adventure, Barry Lester did what he often warned others never to do but frequently did himself—he picked up a snake. Sadly, this time it was a fatal mistake for Lester as a timber rattlesnake, one of the most dangerous rattlesnakes in the eastern U.S., bit him twice, and he died before he could be treated, as reported by the Tulsa World.
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How the Snake Pours Its Way Across the Ground
Laboratory tests of a 70-year-old hypothesis illuminate the details of a subtle form of snake locomotion.
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New study: Snake fungal disease may now be a global threat
A potentially fatal fungus infection found in more than two dozen snake species in Europe and the United States could be lethal to serpents across the globe, a new study finds.
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Study warns that snake fungal disease could be a global threat
New research suggests that a potentially fatal snake fungus found in several species in the United States and three in Europe could be global in scale. The study, published today in the journal Science Advances, shows that the snake fungal disease caused by Ophidiomyces ophidiodiicola can infect snakes of many species regardless of their ancestry, physical characteristics, or habitats.
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Major Advance in Snakebite Treatment
A University of Arizona researcher developing a therapy to prevent or delay the dangerous results of rattlesnake and other venomous snakebites in humans has shown that a combination of carbon monoxide and iron inhibits snake venom's effects for up to an hour in animals, a major advance in bringing the treatment to market.
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