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Viper research

(BBC 09/04/2009)

New research by a Bangor university student has found that the diet of poisonous snakes affects its venom strength. Axel Barlow's discovery means that anti-venom can be developed specific to a certain snake's location or diet. His studies into saw-scaled vipers, which have evolved to eat scorpions, found that they also had venom which was more lethal to scorpions.

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