Snakebites Make The List Of 'Neglected Tropical Diseases'
They claim about 100,000 lives a year. WHO has now put snakebites on its list of "neglected tropical diseases."
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How Snakes Lost Their Legs
Scientists in Florida say they've pinpointed a genetic process that caused snakes to lose their legs and have found that embryonic pythons still form "cryptic leg skeletons," millions of years later.
The World Is Running Out Of A Critical Snakebite Antidote
If a venomous snake bites you in Africa, you're likely to survive when you're near a hospital. That might not be the case next year.
How The Turtle Got Its Shell
The ribs of a 240 million-year-old fossil hold clues to how the first turtle shell evolved. And its skull shape seems closer to that of lizards and snakes than to an ancestor of dinosaurs and birds.
Earth's First Snake Likely Evolved On Land, Not In Water
Genetic sleuthing and comparisons of recently discovered fossils with living snakes point to a "protosnake" ancestor that likely had tiny hind legs and lived about 120 million years ago.
(Not) Eaten Alive: A Snake Tale, Made For TV
More than 20 million people watched Discovery's YouTube trailer for the special, in which naturalist Paul Rosolie said, "We're going to get me inside of a snake." But that didn't happen.