Recoiling the 7 best snake stories of 2021
Seven of our favourite danger-noodle stories from the past year.
Snake season is upon us. Whether you love them or hate them, there’s no denying that these are some of the most fasci...
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5 remarkable reptile facts herpetologists want you to know
Scientists share their wackiest, weirdest and most interesting reptile facts.
Today is Reptile Awareness Day! We reached out to our lizard-loving scientist friends to learn their favourite reptil...
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Snakes dined out after dinosaurs died out
The emergence of a diverse diet propelled snake evolution.
Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs died out. But it wasn’t a sad day for everyone, with mammal and bird evolu...
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Lizard vs snake: Venom showdown
Unravelling the secrets of defence against one of Australia’s deadly snakes.
The humble blue-tongue lizard, an iconic Aussie species, is resistant to the venom of the deadly red-bellied black sn...
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Snakes need to stretch, scientists say
The minimum enclosure size for snakes in captivity should enable them to stretch out fully, say a...
An international team of researchers including scientists from the University of Adelaide, has found overwhelming evi...
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Snakes move like sine waves
The physics of sidewinder snake movement.
Physicists have long studied the unique movement of snakes, and now they have proof that there’s more to snakeskin th...
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Animal magnetism is real
Snakes repel venom via a magnet-like mechanism.
Franz Mesmer might have been on to something when he described animal magnetism as an invisible force possessed by al...
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Smart new snakey moves
Lasso-like reptilian locomotion is a killer for tropical island wildlife.
Brown tree snakes (Boiga irregularis) appear to have evolved a whole new way of moving that could help explain how th...
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Viper uses zig and zag to bamboozle predators
One pattern has three uses, research finds.
The European viper (genus Vipera) is designed to deceive, it seems.New research from Finland suggests that the ch...
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A feed like this is getting harder to get
When frogs die off, snake diversity plummets.
In the past two decades scientists have seen 90 amphibian species go extinct and more than 500 others be badly affect...
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India’s snakebite regime found wanting
Too many antivenoms are not fit for purpose, study shows.
Antivenoms commercially available in India are inefficient in treating the effects of many snakebites, researchers sa...
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When snakes had legs
Fossil analysis adds more pieces to the evolutionary puzzle.
Snakes had legs for quite a while, but it was quite a while ago, according to analysis of a rare fossil find.Palaeo...