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climb along with the flood waters. we're learning at this hour that sheriff offices across the coast getting a number of calls from people trapped in their homes they didn't evacuate but as the lead county sheriff's office said winds need to drop to 45 miles per hour for them to safely attempt these rescues. we're going to have every corner of this disaster covered from reporters on the ground to residents in its path. but we begin in an area where residents have been advised to shelter in place, the tampa saint pete region and that's where we find fax weather's max gordon who is sta...

A drug used to treat inflammation could be repurposed to treat toxic snake bites from African spitting cobras, a team at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have discovered.

A 60-year-old snake charmer in Kigoma, Tanzania plays with a cobra and dies after the reptile bites him in the mouth and fingers.

Date Time Study: Did cobras first spit venom to scare pre-humans? A smart prey animal knows to avoid a predatory snake armed with deadly venom. But new research suggests that for some cobras, the venom evolved additional complexity to deter potential enemies – possibly including Homo erectus, humans’ extinct close relative. In “Convergent Evolution of Pain-inducing Defensive Venom Components in Spitting Cobras,” published Jan. 22 in Science, an international team of researchers investigating the evolutionary origins of a novel defensive trait by snakes – venom spitting – offer the...