Sentences with phrase «many venomous snakes»

The venomous snake swam alongside the boat before making its way round the back and slithering onto the wooden decking.

Venomous snakes and lizards claim the lives of six Americans each year.

In May, a 37 - year old Missouri man who was wading through a river in the town of Nixa was bitten on both legs by a venomous snake and died in the hospital the next day, USA Today reported.

These include big cats, bears, primates and venomous snakes.

It takes a venomous snake at least a day to regenerate more venom after a full milking.

No one in their right mind would knowingly handle venomous snakes, Repubs or Dems.

Don't play with venomous snakes.

A venomous snake does what its programming tells it to do... bite idiots who get too close to them

It is also illogical to postpone or refuse medical attention after being bitten by a venomous snake.

With regard to his faith, he avoids rational reasoning as if it were a venomous snake.

In February 2013, Coots was given one year of probation for crossing into Tennessee with venomous snakes.

In Numbers, the Israelites started complaining about their living conditions, and as punishment God sent venomous snakes to bite them.

I tend to believe that the name cobra references several species of snakes, most of which are in the venomous snake family Elapidae.

Lesson learned = stay away from venomous snakes... get a whore or jerk off.

Who wants venomous snakes?

In 2001, Murphy's friend and fellow collector Joe Slowinski died after being bitten by a venomous snake he had caught in Myanmar.

Researchers from LSTM, along with a team of international biologists who have recently sequenced the genome of the king cobra, say that their work reveals dynamic evolution and adaptation in the snake venom system, which seemingly occurs in response to an evolutionary arms race between venomous snakes and their prey.

Each venomous snake species produces a unique venom, a mixture of around 50 - 200 toxic proteins and protein fragments that co-evolve with the typical prey of the snake, such as the smaller reptiles eaten by the eastern coral snake or the rodents preferred by rattlesnakes.

Before his plane touches down in each, he will be able to recite all the local diseases, venomous snakes, frogs, bugs, and fish, and poisonous plants.

Venomous snakes bite an estimated 4.5 million people every year, nearly 3 million of whom suffer serious injuries, such as the loss of a limb.

This is an Anderson's Pitviper (Trimeresurus Andersoni), a highly venomous snake, photographed by Dr. Kartik Sunagar in the Andaman Islands of India.

Most venomous snakes do not have hollow fangs.

Moreover, venom research has mostly neglected ancient animal groups in favor of focusing on venomous snakes and cone snails, which are both «young» animal groups that originated only recently in evolutionary timescales, approximately 50 million years ago.

The newly described venomous snake has been reported only in a small, 320 - square - kilometer area of Golfo Dulce.

The island has no truly venomous snakes or big cats, no bears or wolves or man - eating reptiles.

«The fossils suggest a fundamental shift toward more active and potentially venomous snakes that could exert very different pressures on the local fauna.»

Scientists have found the oldest definitive fossil evidence of modern, venomous snakes in Africa.

Ohio University scientists have found the oldest definitive fossil evidence of modern, venomous snakes in Africa, according to a new study published March 19 in the journal PLOS ONE.

Senior author Dr Nick Casewell said: «Each geographic area has huge diversity in the types of venomous snakes that cause different pathologies.

«One of the questions we often get is, how can you tell a venomous snake from a harmless one?

It is not uncommon for a person bitten by a venomous snake to have medical bills of $ 50,000 or more because of hospitalization, which can run from one day to several weeks, treatments on damaged tissues, plus antivenin treatments that can run into the thousands of dollars, she adds.

The answer, according to Kevin Broady, an immunologist at the University of Technology in Sydney, is that venomous snakes have a «protective factor» in their blood.

As a certified snake - catcher with a permit to relocate venomous snakes away from habitation, I frequently speak to people about how they can reduce the risk of encountering an undesired reptile.

«Most of the highly venomous snakes also have a non-venomous mimic counterpart.»

It culminated in 26 arrests, with more than 400 animals — including endangered turtles and venomous snakes — taken into custody as evidence.

To support it, she showed that the rare primates that have not encountered venomous snakes in the course of their evolution, such as lemurs in Madagascar, have poorer vision than those that evolved alongside snakes.

The study, published 23 September in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, found that more than 4000 people die every year in the same region because of bites from venomous snakes.

And in the regions where they are being introduced, the illegal trade represents a likely source of new alien species to disrupt the local ecosystems and, in the case of venomous snakes, pose a potential threat to humans.»

ON AN island off West Africa lives a venomous snake.

With about 250 animals from 40 different species, it's one of the largest collections of venomous snakes in Europe.

It has long been known that black widow spiders, like some venomous snakes, can deliver «dry bites» to warn off larger animals without wasting venom on them.

Shown here, clockwise from the main image, are the king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)-- the world's longest venomous snake; the non-venomous speckled kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula holbrooki); the green vine snake (Oxybelis fulgidus); and the blue Malaysian coral snake (Calliophis bivirgatus).

The best evidence on this evolutionary process comes from Dr Ben Phillips» studies on red - bellied blacksnakes, a venomous snake species from eastern Australia.

Venomous snakes of Nepal (27/02/2013) medical and development experts celebrate book release in Kathmandu... more

Animal - related injuries such as venomous snake bites that cause paralysis and necrotic tissue can trigger rhabdomyolysis as well.

The black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) is a venomous snake endemic to parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

Consider a small, seemingly extraneous early scene where a venomous snake rears up to threaten a couple of soldiers engaged in battle.

In Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), viewers are reminded again and again of the «venomous snakes and poison ants» that populate the Australian outback.

Margot talks about growing up in Australia, being around lots of venomous snakes, Outback Steakhouse, her first job at 10 years old, her new movie I, Tonya and she has a beer with Guest Host Chris Pratt.

Then a red digital readout counts down the time until the container holding all the venomous snakes bursts, letting them to their own devices.