Snake Venoms Share Similar Ingredients

Thanks for the article.

I have always been fascinated by snakes, and although I spent a short holiday in Sydney, Australia years ago, never saw a snake.

Snakes are prohibited in New Zealand.

After reading it, I'm so glad the blessed St. Patrick himself must have visited New Zealand, and cleared away all the snakes.

Seriously though, New Zealand did have Moa, a bird species the largest of which stood some 12 feet high at the eye level.

These giant birds would have regarded any snake as edible, similar to a worm, and eaten them soon after the snake hatched.

Have a read about the Moa here:

http://www.kcc.org.nz/birds/extinct/moa.asp

Look at that, and think of those drumsticks.....

Kind Regards....

Very interesting, and sure to become moreso as the information available increases. The Massasaugua is an old acquaintance of mine, I attended university in Kansas and they were endemic. Here in Florida, we have several species of rattlesnakes, all fairly closely related, copperheads, cottonmouths (aka water mocassins), and coral snakes for venomous reptiles. Also several species of water snakes that are agressive, and whose bite invariably becomes infected from the great volume and variety of bacteria that flourish in their mouths.