Watch as Sean Nel and Kurdt Greenwood take on one of the most dangerous snakes in Africa — the Mozambique Spitting Cobra ...

While previous studies suggest snake venom differences are largely driven by variation in diet, a new analysis in three lineages of "spitting cobra" points to a different mechanism - the need to ...

Spitting cobras have an exceptional ... Muscle contractions squeeze the cobra's venom gland, forcing venom to stream out of the snake's fangs. The muscles can produce enough pressure to spray ...

Not all cobras can spit. Those that can have a specially modified fang with a small hole in it. "When the snake contracts its venom gland, it squeezes a small amount out at high pressure.

and covered with a thin sheet of plastic so he could observe the patterns the venom formed when the cobras spat at him. He then proceeded to--in his own words--"taunt the snake" to get it to spit ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RALEIGH, N.C. — Animal control caught ...

But have you heard about a snake that spits venom to large distances ? The spitting cobra stands out among the other snakes with the exceptional capability of spitting venom, to not less but upto ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Animal control caught a venom-spitting snake Wednesday night, more than two days after it escaped in a northwest Raleigh neighborhood. The venomous zebra cobra was ...

The snake is named for its ability to spit its venom. The snake that Evans had been called to rescue had been seen in a hole in a wall of a family's prayer room. When he arrived, the reptile ...

In a recent study published in Science Translational Medicine, scientists used functional genomics to dissect and understand the cytotoxicity of spitting ... that comprise snake venom to varying ...