A small team of researchers from multiple institutions in France has learned more about the properties of the "cobra wave" by building structures from popsicle sticks and filming wave progressions with a high-speed camera. ...
The Burmese python's ability to ramp up its metabolism and enlarge its organs to swallow and digest prey whole can be traced to unusually rapid evolution and specialized adaptations of its genes and the way they work, an ...
Biotechnology
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cobras, and several other groups of unrelated snakes, form a menacing hood flare by expanding the sides of their necks as part of a defensive display. Now scientists in the US have identified the groups of ...
Snakes bite 5.4 million people each year—and roughly half are injected with venom, according to the WHO. Between 81,000 and 138,000 people die, while around three times as many suffer amputations and other permanent disabilities. ...
Biochemistry
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A study of spitting cobras, published in Science reveals how a combination of venom components have evolved to create an instantly painful venom, not once, but on three separate occasions.
Plants & Animals
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A large international team of researchers affiliated with corporate and academic institutions has sequenced the genome of the Indian cobra. In their paper published in the journal Nature Genetics, the group describes their ...
Cobras are among the most widely known venomous snakes, and yet a new research paper has revealed that what was thought to be a single widespread cobra species, the forest cobra, is, in fact, made up of five separate species. ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2018
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A University of Queensland-led international study has revealed how one of the world's most feared types of snakes – cobras – developed their potent venom.
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2017
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A new study has provided the first comprehensive insight into how snake venom evolved into the sophisticated cocktail of different proteins it is today.
Plants & Animals
Dec 3, 2013
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Scientists have added dozens of Australian species to the family of small worm-like snakes called Scolecophidia, which are some of the least-understood creatures on Earth.
Plants & Animals
Jul 5, 2013
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