#mockvipers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mockvipers, aggregated by home.social.
-
Viper-mimicking #snake from Asia is a unique branch in the reptile evolutionary tree
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-viper-mimicking-snake-asia-unique.html#Phylogenomics of Psammodynastes and Buhoma, with the description of a new Asian snake family https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-60215-2
"#MockVipers not only look like tree-dwelling #vipers but also act like them. Intriguingly, they have a fake 'fang' in the front of their mouth, which fools a predator into thinking that they possess #venom fangs during an open-mouthed threat display."