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Change in Diet Sent Snakes Looking for New Chemical Defense Against Predators

Brian Owens · March 5, 2020 ·

Snake species recycles poison collected from its own prey. Keelback snakes are master chemists. These unusual snakes possess glands in their skin that contain heart-stopping toxic steroids to defend against predators. When an attacker tries to eat them, the glands rupture, releasing a mouthful of potentially fatal poison. But these snakes, native to China, Japan […]

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