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Topic: Snakes

SubscriberWrites: Understanding Snakes

From myths to medicine, snakes inspire awe and fear. Most are harmless, vital pest-controllers & with awareness, co-existence is safer than killing them.

Scientists develop most accurate 3D map of mammal brain yet. It’s like ‘having access to a Google map’

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

King Cobra can kill an elephant with a single bite. Here’s how we got close to it for our film

Our first cameraman ran away after doing a Google search on the King Cobra. The realisation that this is the world’s longest venomous snake, with no available antidote in India, never left us.

A Brazilian biologist stepped on pit vipers 40,000 times. What ‘daring feet’ revealed about snakebites

Team led by João Miguel Alves-Nunes studied snake defense mechanisms by gently stepping on jararacas. Findings, published in Scientific Reports, to help optimise antivenom distribution.

Looking for pit vipers on your honeymoon in Nilgiri Hills? That’s what Rom & Zai Whitaker did

In ‘Scaling Up’, Zai Whitaker expands on the classic Snakeman, which was about her and her ex-husband Romulus Whitaker’s adventures in conservation.

Romulus Whitaker’s colour blindness was an advantage. It helped him spot snakes easily

In ‘Snakes, Drugs And Rock ’N’ Roll’, Romulus Whitaker and his wife Janaki Lenin write about Whitaker’s childhood and his adventures before setting up the famed Chennai Snake Park.

A suffering tribe, an explosive case: Inside Delhi Sapera village at heart of ‘snake venom’ row

Five men from Delhi's Molarband village arrested for alleged involvement in Noida rave saga in which YouTube Elvish Yadav is also a suspect. They're out on bail, but residents say damage done.

He is Bihar’s ‘Snake Man’ and he won’t stop till he rescues the very last one

Hariom says Indian snakes are misunderstood. To reverse this, he runs a rescue centre in Buxar, uses Instagram Reels, and has developed a new repellent.

Brrr! German scientists produce coldest temperature ever recorded in lab

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Rare fossil turtle egg discovered, belongs to species that died when asteroid wiped out dinos

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

On Camera

World’s greatest cricket rivalry is now an off-field battle between BCCI, PCB, and ICC

An explosive email from ICC CEO to the PCB, accusing it of compromising ICC rules by making a video of match officials before the match with UAE, shows the fire isn’t doused yet.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.