Deep within the lush forests of Kerala lies a temple that many fear, many worship, and some dare not even whisper about. The ...

Now, there’s Tim Friede, a former construction and factory worker — and self-taught herpetologist — from Wisconsin, who allowed himself to be bitten by venomous snakes more than 200 times.

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Some venoms cause intense pain while others cause no pain at all. Such diversity in venom ... it has been several years since Friede last allowed himself to be bitten by a venomous snake. But he ...

Once bitten, twice shy. But oft bitten? A Wisconsin man has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times. Often on purpose, it turns out. Tim Friede “began injecting himself with small doses of snake ...

The paper’s authors say they played no part in ... from Friede allowed mice to survive otherwise lethal doses of venom from any one of 19 species of dangerous elapid snakes.

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In snakes, radio telemetry in the 1990s allowed researchers to track individual ... Yet in other species, there’s no hardware; I saw a cobra hemipenis in Brennan’s lab, more than a foot ...