venom resistance

Venom resistance in kingsnakes - Reptilenesia

A kingsnake eating a rattlesnake Kingsnakes get their name because they eat other snakes, including venomous snakes like copperheads, cotton...

reptilenesia 25 Apr, 2021

Rattlesnake Roundups Revisited - Reptilenesia

A chalkboard at the 2016 Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup, showing that a record number of pounds of snake had already been bought and sold by...

reptilenesia 25 Apr, 2021

Even snakes have their charismatic megafauna - Reptilenesia

Bitis harenna From Gower et al. 2016 Last year, I wrote about the 10,000th reptile and the 3,500th snake  species to be described by scienti...

reptilenesia 25 Apr, 2021

Rattlesnake Roundups - Reptilenesia

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake ( Crotalus adamanteus ), the world's largest species of rattlesnake ( maximum 8'3" ) Rattlesnak...

reptilenesia 25 Apr, 2021