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Snakes: long and narrow, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the Serpente family. Like all serpentes, snakes are covered in overlapping scales.
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JAN 23, 2023Drug Discovery & Development
Venomous snakes, which include cobras, vipers, and rattlesnakes, can pose a significant danger to humans. In the Un ...Written By: J. Bryce OrtizJAN 17, 2023Plants & Animals
Yesterday a story started to pop up everywhere about a terrifying beach discovery. A woman walking along Crystal Beach i ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 31, 2022Plants & Animals
In honor of Halloween, from venomous bites to bright red faces to full-moon dances, here are the six weirdest monkeysWritten By: Brittany Kenyon-FlattOCT 22, 2022Neuroscience
New research from Finland reveals why we love horror moviesSEP 11, 2022Technology
In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers led by the Uni ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 23, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
Venomous snakes, which include cobras, vipers, and rattlesnakes, can pose a significant danger to humans. In the Un
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Written By:
J. Bryce Ortiz
JAN 17, 2023
Plants & Animals
Yesterday a story started to pop up everywhere about a terrifying beach discovery. A woman walking along Crystal Beach i
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Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 31, 2022
Plants & Animals
In honor of Halloween, from venomous bites to bright red faces to full-moon dances, here are the six weirdest monkeys
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
OCT 22, 2022
Neuroscience
New research from Finland reveals why we love horror movies
SEP 11, 2022
Technology
In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers led by the Uni
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Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 20, 2021
Neuroscience
We have all experienced the emotion of fear. Although what one individual might fear (e.g. rollercoasters or snakes), mi
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Written By:
J. Bryce Ortiz
NOV 19, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Some of our best medications have come from nature. For years, researchers have been studying the properties of differen
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Carmen Leitch
OCT 18, 2021
Plants & Animals
Two new, unrelated studies have examined how very different environmental disasters affected wildlife in the areas where
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 02, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Reporting in Nature Communications, scientists have suggested that every living snake on earth evolved from just a handf
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
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AUG 06, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Effective locomotion in nature happens by transitioning between multiple modes (e.g., walk, run, climb, slither). Despite this, far more mechanistic understanding of terrestrial locomotion h...
AUG 06, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Effective locomotion in nature happens by transitioning between multiple modes (e.g., walk, run, climb, slither). Despite this, far more mechanistic understanding of terrestrial locomotion h...