The world's ‘most dangerous' island where tourists are banned from visiting
This island is home to so many dangerous snakes that it has been closed to everyone except the country's navy and carefully ...
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Heavy Metal Icon Pit Passarell Dead at 56, Cause of Death Revealed
He and his brother Yves Passarell, alongside their friend Felipe Machado, formed the Brazilian metal band Viper in 1985.
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Five animal venoms you didn’t know are used in medicine
For example, Captopril, a drug used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure, comes from the venom of the Brazilian pit viper. The venom has a peptide that blocks an enzyme called ...
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2-foot-long predator — with ‘mesh pattern’ on its eyes — discovered as new species
They took a closer look at the snakes and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Ovophis zhaoermii, or the Guanyinshan mountain pit viper. An Ovophis zhaoermii, or Guanyinshan ...