Take a look at the reptiles that humans may fear most: Snakes. Look into their secret and very strange world to try to understand them better.
Oct 31st, 2008 | 34 comments | 22,176 Views
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The Reptiles: Snakes: Introduction
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The Reptiles: Snakes: Venomous Cures
Scientists use venom to develop antivenoms, and the toxic compounds may also yield new drugs to treat everything from crippling strokes to deadly heart attacks.
Oct 31st, 2008 | 3 comments | 3,947 Views
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The Venom Cure: Sea Snake Venom
Bryan Fry's goal is to collect, study, and catalog the chemical characteristics of venom from sea snakes.
Mar 19th, 2008 | 1 comment | 3,022 Views
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The Venom Cure: Additional Web and Print Resources
View additional resources, online and in print, for NATURE's "The Venom Cure."
Mar 19th, 2008 | 2 comments | 1,543 Views
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Victims of Venom: Rattlesnake Roundup
Venomous creatures have long struck terror in people. The unfortunate result of this fear is that some people routinely kill any snakes they encounter.
Oct 29th, 1996 | 1 comment | 2,039 Views
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Victims of Venom: Introduction
There are not many people in the world who know more about snakes and snake venom than Bill Haast does. Haast has spent more than 50 years working with snakes.
Oct 29th, 1996 | 6 comments | 13,972 Views
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Victims of Venom: Venom from the Sea
Snakes are not the only creatures that use venom. Scorpions, shrews, spiders, insects, salamanders, and even some types of plants also use poisonous venoms.
Oct 29th, 1996 | 0 comments | 1,697 Views
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