The end of venom? Sydney scientists find new cure for flesh-eating snake bites

The end of venom? Sydney scientists find new cure for flesh-eating snake bites

A bold new technique for finding antidotes for box jellyfish stings,vipers’ venom,and death cap mushrooms has emerged from a Sydney lab.

  • byAngus Dalton

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Snake experts say there’s another way to rescue the family pet from a python

Snake experts say there’s another way to rescue the family pet from a python

Footage of a 12-year-old Queensland girl saving her guinea pig from a python has gone viral. Snake catchers say there might have been an easier way to separate them.

  • byJocelyn Garcia
Four more Queenslanders bitten by snakes

Four more Queenslanders bitten by snakes

After a woman in her 20s was bitten in bed,four more people have been rushed to hospital suffering snake bites,as breeding season continues.

  • byAndrew Drummond
Venomous snake bites woman while lying in her own bed

Venomous snake bites woman while lying in her own bed

A Queensland woman has abruptly woken up after one of the world’s most deadly snakes slithered into her bed and bit her on the hand.

  • byLaine Clark andFraser Barton
Telco thinks it’s time
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Telco thinks it’s time

Prog rock? What’s the rush?

‘Really dangerous’:Deadly snake holds up play during Thiem’s match in Brisbane

‘Really dangerous’:Deadly snake holds up play during Thiem’s match in Brisbane

Former US Open champion Dominic Thiem was taking on Australian youngster James McCabe when an eastern brown snake slithered onto the court.

  • byMelissa Woods
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Yes,Brissie backyards come with snakes. Removing them creates another risk
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City life

Yes,Brissie backyards come with snakes. Removing them creates another risk

There’s a perception that snakes don’t belong in urban environments and that,if spotted,need to be relocated. Should we rethink that?

  • byCourtney Kruk
Snakes are on the move early this spring. This is what you need to know

Snakes are on the move early this spring. This is what you need to know

A warmer than average winter has triggered an early start to snake season,prompting a surge in calls from people finding the reptiles in their gardens,roofs and wall cavities.

  • byCatherine Naylor
1.5 billion humans share their bodies with worms. But how does one get into a brain?
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Science

1.5 billion humans share their bodies with worms. But how does one get into a brain?

Surgeons plucked a live roundworm from a woman’s brain in a hospital in Australia. What was it doing there?

  • byLiam Mannix
Hikers urged to talk the talk while walking the walk to ward off snakes

Hikers urged to talk the talk while walking the walk to ward off snakes

Queensland researchers have debunked the long-held myth that snakes are deaf,and as such,they’ve suggested a simple strategy to ward them off.

  • byTracey Ferrier
Not so fast ... smoko rudely interrupted by deadly intruder

Not so fast ... smoko rudely interrupted by deadly intruder

Super-cool snake catcher Ayla Manson was having a break after a job well done when she realised it wasn’t over yet.

  • byJocelyn Garcia