Venomous fishes could provide medical therapies

Tuesday, July 5, 2016 - 14:31 in Biology & Nature

Upon hearing the word “venom,” most people probably think of a snake’s fang. But the ability to produce and inject toxins into another animal is so useful, it has evolved multiple times in creatures ranging from jellyfishes to spiders, shrews to the male platypus. Now, a paper appearing this week in the journal Integrative and […]

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