A new study provides the first comprehensive explanation of how snake venom regulatory systems evolved -- an important example that illuminates the evolution of new complex traits. A new study from ...

A research team led by scientists at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, has completed the most extensive genetic sequencing of a jararaca viper to date. The focus of the study was the genome ...

A study of spitting cobras, published in Science (22 January 2021 doi 10.1126/science.abb9303) reveals how a combination of venom components have evolved to create an instantly painful venom, not once ...

Hot Toys is back with yet another Spider-Man figure, releasing a new 1/6 scale figure based on Venom from the Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 video game. The giant figure is modeled after Venom in the recent ...

Snakes usually use venom to attack and subdue or kill their prey, and their venoms tend to cause paralysis or death. But researchers have found that in one group of snakes, venom has evolved; it has ...

How does evolution invent entirely new things, like limbs, wings, and venom? Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll joins us to reveal the hidden rules behind nature’s creativity and the genetic ...

Which Venom action figures are best? There are a lot of legendary villains in the Marvel universe, but few are as infamous as Venom, the sinister symbiote that took over the body of journalist Eddie ...