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A researcher in Brazil investigated why some snakes bite humans and others don’t using a very unusual– not to say totally nuts – methodology: he stepped on them, thousands of times. João Miguel Alves-Nunes of the Butantan Institute published the results of his experiment in Scientific Reports.
Last week scientists and researchers from the Khamai Foundation announced their discovery of five new species of eyelash vipers in the jungles and cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador.
A rare two-headed snake took two years to recover from its self-induced injury, but he’s (they’re?) finally back in his exhibit at the Cameron Park Zoo in Waco, Texas.
Late last year, a team from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida captured and killed one of the thousands (or more) of the Burmese pythons plaguing the Everglades. This one, a female packed with 122 egg follicles, was a whopper: nearly 18 feet long and weighing 215 pounds.
