New dwarf boa found in Ecuadoran Amazon
Scientists have discovered a new species of dwarf boa in the Ecuadoran Amazon and named it after an Indigenous activist.
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News tagged with snake
Learning from habitat 'haves' to help save a threatened rattlesnake
Comparing the genetics and relocation patterns of habitat "haves" and "have-nots" among two populations of threatened rattlesnakes has produced a new way to use scientific landscape data to guide conservation planning that ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 19, 2022
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Snakes have clitorises, scientists say, slamming research 'taboo'
Female snakes have clitorises, according to the first detailed study on the subject Wednesday, in which the scientists lashed out at how little female sex organs have been researched compared to males across species.
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2022
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Flying snakes help scientists design new robots
Robots have been designed to move in ways that mimic animal movements, such as walking and swimming. Scientists are now considering how to design robots that mimic the gliding motion exhibited by flying snakes.
General Physics
Dec 13, 2022
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Systematic characterization of the venoms of the 26 medically most important snakes from sub-Saharan Africa
Each year, about 500,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from snake bites, causing an estimated 7,000 to 20,000 deaths. Many snake species native to the region, such as the feared black mamba, are classified as species ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 13, 2022
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Messel boa: Live birth in a 47-million-year-old snake
An Argentine-German team of scientists, including Senckenberg's Krister Smith, has discovered the world's first fossil evidence of live birth in snakes. The fossil they examined came from the Hessian UNESCO World Heritage ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Nov 15, 2022
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Pythons are true choke artists: Size alone doesn't explain how they can eat such big prey
Burmese pythons are not just big snakes, growing to more than 18 feet and 200 pounds, but big eaters, taking on prey as large as deer.
Plants & Animals
Sep 16, 2022
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North America's rarest snake found biting off more than it could chew
North America's rarest snake, Tantilla oolitica (rim rock crowned snake), was recently spotted in a park in the Florida Keys after a four-year hiatus. While this would normally be cause for celebration among conservationists, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2022
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Snake genome research expands understanding of krait venom
Bungarus multicinctus, or the many-banded krait as it commonly called, is a highly venomous elapid snake widely distributed across southern Asia. Available antivenoms show good neutralizing efficacy but can exhibit batch-to-batch ...
Evolution
Jul 14, 2022
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The art of getting DNA out of decades-old pickled snakes
Two levels underground, Chicago's Field Museum has a secret bunker. The sub-basement Collections Resource Center houses millions of biological specimens for scientists around the world to use in their research, including ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 30, 2022
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