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Masquerading, deadly snake discovered and named after shape-shifting Chinese goddess
https://www.livescience.com ^
| 08 April 2021
| By Harry Baker
Posted on 04/08/2021 9:43:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
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The new krait species Bungarus suzhenae, also known as Suzhen's krait. (Image credit: Dr Li Ding)
To: Red Badger
Another Chinese mutation. Lovely.
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posted on
04/08/2021 9:47:16 AM PDT
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: monkeyshine
Some things from China actually work!
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posted on
04/08/2021 9:49:21 AM PDT
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: Red Badger
Kind of an ordinary-looking snakey, but that typical for kraits.
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posted on
04/08/2021 9:50:37 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
To: monkeyshine
The mutation was very strange. Most venomous snakes bite and deliver a nerve agent as poison. This one delivers COVID-19 virus, which leads us to believe this is an engineered snake.
To: 17th Miss Regt
Smile emoji snake. Intentionally bred in fact.
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posted on
04/08/2021 9:55:34 AM PDT
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: Red Badger
I really hate kraits.
I must have killed several hundred when I was in Vietnam.
If you shined a light on the asphalt outside our barracks at night, there would be a snake every couple of feet over every square inch of the asphalt.
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posted on
04/08/2021 9:55:40 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
To: Red Badger
“hemipenes”
Well, I’ve learned a new word.
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posted on
04/08/2021 9:57:29 AM PDT
by
moovova
(Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
To: moovova
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posted on
04/08/2021 10:02:21 AM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: Red Badger
>>after spending decades masquerading as a much less dangerous species
transpecies
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posted on
04/08/2021 10:06:15 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
To: moovova
They are High Performance MOPAR Snakes...................
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posted on
04/08/2021 10:06:47 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
To: Red Badger
Off to the Wuhan lab with this one. We can use this puppy.
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posted on
04/08/2021 10:09:17 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
To: a fool in paradise
[[[>after spending decades masquerading as a much less dangerous species]]]
The snake is a liar!
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posted on
04/08/2021 10:10:58 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
To: BuffaloJack
Since snakes are cold-blooded, they are attracted to warm areas, like asphalt. Around here, we have Copperheads sunning themselves by streams, on sun-warmed rocks.
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posted on
04/08/2021 10:17:15 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
To: headstamp 2
Or maybe the harmless snake tries to front as a more dangerous variety to ward off potential predators.
Certainly that is the case with some insects and things.
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posted on
04/08/2021 10:24:00 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
To: Red Badger
Your thread has been up for almost an hour and no one has posted a 'chinese snake goddess' pic yet? Whats this place coming too?
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posted on
04/08/2021 10:41:27 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: Salamander
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posted on
04/08/2021 10:46:46 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ )
To: Red Badger
bungeranus? what sort of a name is that for a deadly family of snake?
To: Red Badger
This is now my most favorite snake joke ever.
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posted on
04/08/2021 10:56:39 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
To: MIchaelTArchangel
Gay snakes...................
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posted on
04/08/2021 11:03:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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