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A fungus with a 40% kill rate is spreading through snake dens

Reptiles aren’t typically the first animals considered in the face of fungal infections. Although mammals are more ...

This animal kills 100,000 people a year. Why can’t we stop it?

They also kill about six people in a given year. Snakes, on the other hand, kill roughly 100,000. After mosquitoes, which ...

In 1979, Japan released 30 mongooses onto Amami Oshima to kill venomous snakes, and it took 45 years to fix what happened next

Japan's ambitious plan to control venomous snakes on Amami Ōshima with Indian mongooses in 1979 backfired spectacularly. The ...