Venomous snakes must strike fast to sink their fangs in prey before they startle – as quickly as 60 milliseconds when hunting rodents.

New research has captured – in slow-motion footage – the differences in how venomous serpents bite their targets.

Scientists studied 36 species of venomous snake, filming them at 1,000 frames a second as they struck an object made of ballistic gel that resembled the structure of human skin and muscle. How I learned to stop worrying and love the snakes in my ceiling Read more

The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology , documented the bites of three snake families: vipers, elapids and colubrids. A snake biting a false target in slow motion Slow motion footage – played at 3% of realtime speed – of a sharp-nosed pit viper (Deinag

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