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venom

[ven-uhm] / ˈvɛn əm /


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How many people could die from the venom in a single taipan bite?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

After reviewing the history and spread of the myth, researchers concluded that bites from adult rattlesnakes are generally more dangerous because adults carry and inject much larger amounts of venom.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

The study also disproves the widely repeated claim that baby rattlesnakes cannot control how much venom they release and therefore inject all of it when they bite.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

Marc Leonard, summoning every ounce of venom he could muster, thumped one on goal and it came slapping back off the crossbar.

From BBC Apr. 26, 2026

He was beginning to feel cold, and slow, as if he had been bitten in the heart by some arctic viper and it was starting to pump its icy venom through his body.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

For the past five years, The Liana Trust has been studying venoms from species beyond the big four to develop antidotes to them.

From BBC Feb. 1, 2026

They suspect that combining 95Mat5 with these other antibodies could provide broad coverage against many -- or all -- snake venoms.

From Science Daily Feb. 21, 2024

And so natural selection would have endowed organisms with means that help them solve conflicts in their favor: fangs, antlers, neurotoxic venoms.

From Salon Nov. 2, 2022

In her lab, she studied deadly marine venoms, including, for instance, those of box jellyfish, the toxins of which attack not only skin but the heart and nervous system.

From New York Times Jul. 16, 2022

About stings and venoms and beginnings and endings and all the creatures that no one else seems to understand.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin




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