Pythons can expand and retract the size of their organs as they feast and fast, write Carl Zimmer and Wes Fraser. Studying this may provide humans with another way to fight disease
Found in the Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, the cobra’s venom can kill a human within 15 minutes and an elephant in three hours. It can be recognised by its small flat head and round snoutFound across Southern Africa, the snake, which has dark stripes, hunts small mammals, birds, lizards, frogs and toadsOnce thought to be the world’s deadliest snake, the black mamba is found in Southern and Eastern Africa.
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