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  • Team measures puncture performance of viper fangs

    Apr 17, 2019 8:30 am by Diana YatesResearch
    Specimen of puff adder skull with fangs deployed ©Field Museum of Natural History FMNH 11006. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer;

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    • Specimen of puff adder skull with fangs deployed ©Field Museum of Natural History FMNH 11006. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer;

    A team that studies how biological structures such as cactus spines and mantis shrimp appendages puncture living tissue has turned its attention to viper fangs.