cobra

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Gabriella Comi and her guide David spotted a cobra moving towards two napping lions in the Serengeti National Park in the scorching midday sun.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2025

A cobra bites Chelsea and she’s whisked away to a hospital.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2025

A drug commonly prescribed to thin blood can be repurposed as a cheap antidote to cobra venom, a team of scientists based in Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and the UK has discovered.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2024

When she and Dr. Tessler analyzed the leech’s movement, they identified that it made a curling motion similar to the move a cobra makes before it strikes.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

One of them slid down into your stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well looking for all the old water and the old time gathered there.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury