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Tracks and traces from long ago are preserved in cemented dune surfaces.
First aid guidelines for snake bite include staying still. But that can be tough if you’re in a rural or remote location.
Evidence suggests climate change could make snakes come out of hiding earlier. But it’s also likely to cause population declines or shifts in the long run, as snakes adjust to the new conditions.
Snake venom experts Stuart Ainsworth and Christoffer Sørensen talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the search for an antivenom that could neutralise toxins from multiple different snakes.
A snake bite in a remote area of the Amazon can literally be a matter of life and death. Amazon+10 Initiative study collects snakes to improve the serums available in the region
The genetic mutations responsible for the unusual physical features in animals can also cause great harm.
There are 401 indigenous terrestrial reptiles in South Africa.
By reporting this new way that future antivenoms can fail, the research has highlighted a problem with current antivenom testing recommendations.
Green anacondas are the world’s heaviest snakes, and among the longest. it’s remarkable this hidden species has slipped under the radar until now.
The benefits of snake populations on agricultural land far outweigh the potential costs, and farmers should tolerate rather than kill them.
Learning about snakes offers unique insights into the natural world.
Ancient texts are still teaching us new things about the prevalence of wildlife.
The trace was probably made between 93,000 and 83,000 years ago, almost certainly by a puff adder.
The Nyanga rinkhals can tell us about our own evolution.
It had long been thought snakes can only feel vibrations through the ground. New research shows they can not only sense airborne sound, but can likely detect human voices.
It was assumed snakes didn’t have a clitoris – now it turns out they have two.
Less than a century ago, a slither of tiger snakes was abandoned on one of Western Australia’s tiny islets. Here’s how they adapted to survive.
The first description of the snake clitoris may change what we think we know about mating and courtship among the slithering reptiles.
Even by conservative estimates, Mozambique’s snakebite figures are far higher than previously thought.
Top contributors
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Research Fellow and Co-head, Australian Venom Research Unit, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Herpetology, Environmental Physiology and Physiology, Ecology and Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor & Center Director at the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark
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Professor of Zoology, Bangor University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Wildlife Ecotoxicology, CSIRO
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Research Associate in Evolutionary Biology, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics, Bangor University
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Honorary Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Technical University of Denmark
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Director, Clinical Toxicology Research Group, University of Newcastle
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bournemouth University
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Professor in Evolutionary Biology, Macquarie University
