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Colchicine
at Wed Jan 28 19:46:37 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Colchicine ]
Relative to elapids and pitvipers, they do not have the adaptations for injecting venom deep into tissue. The paper I cited made a pretty good case for the enlarged teeth being used primarily for holding struggling live prey. So... I would not say that Tim's statement was entirely incorrect. ----- ...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
Calvin and Hobbes (Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink', 1991)
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