COIMBATORE: A team of researchers from the Wildlife Nature Conservation Trust (WNCT), with the support of the Tamil Nadu forest department, recorded 2,318 snake ...
Across the Indian countryside, a familiar but often unseen threat is quietly changing. Russell’s viper, already one of the most lethal snakes in the region, is becoming even more dangerous as its ...
Humankind shares the planet with all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures, from rare deep-sea mysteries, to black wolves, and tiny insects. Some of the species run into conflict with humans from ...
There’s always an additional frisson when out in the wild at night, even in countries lacking deadly creatures. What else is out there? Who is watching you? That frisson is magnified into fear and ...
Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, and Department of Microbiology, Health Sciences Center, University of Virginia, Jordan Hall, P.O ...
Background: Twenty-minute whole blood clotting test (20WBCT) and Modified Lee and White (MLW) method are the most routinely employed bedside tests for detecting coagulopathic snake envenomation. Our ...
Laboratorio de Venómica Evolutiva y Traslational, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Jaume Roig 11, 46010 Valencia, Spain ...
Entry for Cockatrice in Easton’s Bible Dictionary. Cockatrice: the mediaeval name (a corruption of "crocodile") of a fabulous serpent supposed to be produced from a cock's egg. It is generally ...