They looked at the toxic cocktails different species use to suppress their prey in the hope it would show how venom has evolved. The theory of convergent evolution describes how animals that have ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

It's scary to consider the amount that still has to be learned about venom and its evolution. Snake venom is a toxic compound that is composed of a complex mixture of proteins, enzymes ...

Recent technological advances in the study of venom peptides and proteins allow us to study venom in a wider range of animals, which allows us to draw more general conclusions about the biology and ...

Snakes, known for their rapid evolution, are among the most dangerous animals due to their venomous bites, causing numerous ...

Yet it is precisely the accumulation of slight mutations to saliva that is responsible for snake venom and therefore much of snake evolution. Natural selection in some ancestral snakes has favored ...