What to do if your pet is bitten by a snake
The beginning of autumn brings pumpkins, falling leaves and baby snake season as snakes are born and hatched in late summer to early fall. The cooling weather also makes snakes more active, putting our curiously natured dogs and cats at higher risk o.....»»
Connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks can mess with your iPhone
The world's most secure consumer OS is bitten by a garden-variety programming bug. Enlarge (credit: Apple) There’s a bug in iOS that disables Wi-Fi connectivity when devices join a network that uses a booby-trapped name, a researcher disclos.....»»
New species of snake described with the help of a 185-year-old painting
A new snake species has been described from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The new species, now known as Joseph's racer, was first collected in the mid-19th Century, but the confusion around this snake goes back over two centuries as it has been mix.....»»
How snake fangs evolved to perfectly fit their food
Few structures in nature inspire more fear and fascination than the fangs of venomous snakes......»»
Watch a Snake Robot Go for a Swim
The Hardened Underwater Modular Robot Snake has thrusters for muscles and a camera for a face. Your move, evolution......»»
How did dinosaurs deliver bone-crushing bites? By keeping a stiff lower jaw.
Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs chomped through bone by keeping a joint in their lower jaw steady like an alligator, rather than flexible like a snake, according to a study being presented at the American Association for Anatomy annual meeting during the.....»»
A snake crosses the Alps: The Italian barred grass snake spreads to Bavaria
A research team from the Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden and the Zoological State Collection in Munich has studied the occurrence of the Italian barred grass snake in Bavaria. Based on over 1000 samples, they show that the snake, w.....»»
Researchers find snake venom complexity is driven by prey diet
Diversity in diet plays a role in the complexity of venom in pit vipers such as rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouths......»»
Snake species from different terrains surrender surface secrets behind slithering success
Some snake species slither across the ground, while others climb trees, dive through sand or glide across water. Today, scientists report that the surface chemistry of snake scales varies among species that negotiate these different terrains. The fin.....»»
CMU teaches its snake robot to swim
The snake robot has been something of an institution in the Carnegie Mellon robotics labs. Every time I visit the school, the biomimetic robot has seemingly learned a new trick. This week, the school announced it has added swimming to the list. Testi.....»»
New deadly snake from Asia named after character from Chinese myth "Legend of White Snake"
In 2001, the famous herpetologist Joseph B. Slowinski died from snakebite by an immature black-and-white banded krait, while leading an expedition team in northern Myanmar. The very krait that caused his death is now confirmed to belong to the same s.....»»
Differences in snake venom composition raise questions about treatment
Snakebite kills around 58,000 Indians annually, and a majority of snakebites that lead to death or disability are attributed to the 'big four' of Indian snakes—the Russell's viper (Daboia russelii), one of the deadliest snake species in the world,.....»»
Uncovering the evolutionary history of a snake through its markings
A snake that actually looks like many different snakes. It sounds like a riddle. It sort of is......»»
Snakeskin inspires new, friction-reducing material
A research team led by CU Boulder has designed a new kind of synthetic "skin" as slippery as the scales of a snake......»»
New exotic invasive snake is captured in Everglades National Park. It"s likely a released pet
Visitors hiking the Mahogany Hammock Trail in Everglades National Park earlier this month spotted an unfamiliar snake. It turned out to be a brand-new invasive species......»»
Grisly find a reminder of the problem of illegal fish traps
Murdoch University researchers from the Harry Butler Institute recently made a heart-breaking discovery in a wetland in Perth's northern suburbs with five mature Southwestern Snake-necked Turtles found dead in illegal traps......»»
New snake species and genus discovered in Myanmar
Mud snakes (family Homalopsidae) live in wetlands across Southeast Asia. Their habitats include natural swamps and open lands flooded during the rainy season, typically rice paddies. Scientists of the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt and t.....»»
Unique feeding behavior of Asian kukri snakes gutting frogs and toads
After describing a unique behavior in the Small-banded Kukri Snake (Oligodon fasciolatus) last September, two new studies, also led by Henrik Bringsøe, are now reporting the same gruesome feeding strategy in another two species: the Taiwanese Kukri.....»»
We tested tiger snake scales to measure wetland pollution in Perth. The news is worse than expected
Australia's wetlands are home to a huge range of stunning flora and fauna, with large snakes often at the top of the food chain......»»
A Bug in Lenovo System Update Service is Driving Up CPU Usage and Prompting Fan Noise in Laptops and Desktops, Customers Say
New reader allquixotic writes: Since late January, most users running a pre-installed Lenovo image of Windows 10 has been bitten by a bug in Lenovo's System Update Service (SUService.exe) causing it to constantly occupy a CPU thread. This was noticed.....»»
Ori director calls Cyberpunk 2077, No Man"s Sky creators "snake oil salesmen"
Game designers who make big promises about upcoming titles only for consumers to be disappointed upon their release is something we're used to seeing. Thomas Mahler, Moon Studios founder and director of the Ori series, is sick of it and has branded t.....»»