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The Animals That Venom Can’t Touch


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The Animals That Venom Can’t Touch

In 1976, a student at the Texas A&M University-Kingsville was tasked with feeding the snakes in what is now the university’s National Natural Toxins Research Center. Thinking it didn’t make much difference what kind of rodent the serpents ate, the student offered one of the Center’s western diamondback rattlesnakes a plump, fuzzy woodrat. The snake attacked by sinking its fangs into the rat’s fur—a maneuver that’s usually followed by near-instant hemorrhaging, clotting in the liver, and cardiac arrest.

But instead of keeling over, the rodent stared back at the God of Death and whispered: “Not today.”

Read more: Smithsonian

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