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Like alchemists with killer precision, brown snakes make different venoms across their lifetime
There has been at least one fatal bite from a very small brown snake in Australia. But now we know that venom is different in adult and baby brown snakes. By Timothy N. W. Jackson.
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Curious Kids: How do snakes make an 'sssssss' sound with their tongue poking out?
The way humans make an 'ssss' noise is different to the way a snake does it. We put our tongue behind our teeth when we hiss, but for a snake the tongue isn't involved at all in making sounds.
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Florida man bitten by a poisonous snake slapped with 6-figure bill
A Florida man was bitten by a poisonous snake and treated with an expensive antivenom that cost more than $150,000. He was lucky: Venomous snakes kill 100,000 people every year. The Weather Channel’s Dave Malkoff met with members of a nonprofit hoping to lower the death toll by creating a cheaper treatment.
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Turns Out, Snakes Can Hunt in Packs, So Let’s Just All Move to Antarctica
Snake hive mind. Cuban boas coordinate their strikes from cave ceilings. By Peter Dockrill.
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Strange Places to Sit
A poison frog sits on top of an emerald tree boa in its enclosure at the Singapore Zoo's new Reptopia exhibit.
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Bird-slaying snakes ravage island forests too: study
A non-native snake species that has already wiped out most of Guam's tree-dwelling birds is also decimating the Pacific island's forests, researchers said Wednesday.
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Watch a Baby Iguana Run for Its Life From a Terrifying Pit of Snakes
Hold onto your butts because this scene from the new Planet Earth II will have you leaping off your seat. By Sarah Emerson.
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‘Ghost Snake’ Discovered in Madagascar
Researchers discovered a new snake species in Madagascar and named it “ghost snake” for its pale grey coloration and elusiveness. They found the ghost snake on a recently opened path within the well-traveled Ankarana National Park in northern Madagascar in February 2014. They studied the snake’s physical characteristics and genetics, which verified that it is a new species.
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Fear of Rattlesnake Island
“If we only conserve the cute and the cuddly,” said Lou Perrotti, who is supervising the breeding of Timber Rattlesnakes, “we’re going to have forests full of butterflies and bunny rabbits, and they’re going to be very nonfunctioning ecosystems that would eventually collapse.” By Christopher Benfey.
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New venomous snake species discovered in Costa Rica
A group of researchers from the U.S. and Costa Rica announced this week the discovery of a new species of venomous snake in the mountains of Costa Rica that they’re calling the Talamancan palm-pitviper (Bothriechis nubestris). Researchers from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and the University of Costa Rica (UCR) discovered the snake in the cloud forests of the Talamanca mountain range, which runs through most of Costa Rica and northern Panama. Their research is published in the July 15 online issue of the journal Zootaxa.
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This Snake Pretends to Be a Spider—and Catches a Bird
Scientists who filmed the rare spider-tailed viper in the wild have unlocked the secret of its bizarre tail. By James Owen.
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Dangdut singer Irma Bule gets bitten by cobra on stage
Dangdut is such an oversaturated musical genre in Indonesia that it’s not surprising how many artists employ gimmicks in their act to stand out from the rest. Unfortunately, dangdut singer Irma Bule’s deadly gimmick, combined with her dedication to showmanship, led to her untimely death.
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Italy’s fascinating Festival of the Snake-Catchers
“Obviously the people here aren’t sophisticated, otherwise they wouldn’t be hanging snakes on a statue, but they’re the real salt of the earth, and the food is fantastic.” By Richard Grant.
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Rare venomous sea snakes keep washing up on California beaches
There are plenty of reasons you may wish you lived in California — beautiful weather, beautiful people, that 7-Eleven that sold a winning Powerball ticket. But you only need one reason not to: Be grateful, anyone who lives anywhere else. As for you Californians — well, we’re keeping you in our thoughts. For the third time in recent months, a rare, venomous yellow-bellied sea snake has washed up on the Golden State’s shores, freaking out beach-goers...
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I ate the beating heart of a live snake in Vietnam. Here’s why I’ll never do it again.
“Eat your heart out.” That’s what the guide’s shirt said. The cartoon snake lay sedated in a submissive position near the hem, his big, Disney-esque eyes staring brightly from the chest. His fangs dangled like wet noodles over an anthropomorphized smile with comically exaggerated dimples. Back at the snake’s body, a Valentine heart pumped through a slit in the scales like a Loony Toon in love, while a small Vietnamese man stood next to it in awe, mouth watering.
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Two 'extinct' sea snakes just appeared off the coast of Australia
Two striking sea snakes have been spotted drifting off the coast of Western Australia, more than 15 years after the species was declared extinct. These bright yellow short nosed sea snakes (Aipysurus apraefrontalis) vanished from their natural habitat in the Timor Sea between 1998 and 2002, only to reappear in full view of a park ranger this month. "We were blown away, these potentially extinct snakes were there in plain sight, living on one of Australia’s natural icons...
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Man may lose hand after attempting to take selfie with rattlesnake
California man picked up the snake to take a photo with it. Needless to say,it did not end well.
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Why We Were Totally Wrong About How Boa Constrictors Kill
Conventional wisdom held that pythons and anacondas suffocate their prey. Instead, the predators cut off their victims' blood supply, a new study says.
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Paul Rosolie Describes Being "Eaten Alive"
Anaconda man Paul Rosolie survived being “eaten alive” by a 18-foot snake. Although he is facing stark criticism for the stunt, Rosolie said he was confident that he and the snake were “going to be safe.”
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Man Claims He's Going To Put On A Snake-Proof Suit And Let An Anaconda Swallow Him On Camera
A documentary filmmaker has stirred controversy after announcing his intention to encase himself in a “snake proof suit” and be eaten alive by an anaconda, before forcing the snake to release him.
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