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The false cobra (Malpolon moilensis), or hooded malpolon, is an opisthoglyphous snake found in parts of Africa and the Middle East. The name "false cobra" comes from the fact that while it is not a cobra , it imitates a cobra's stance by spreading its neck into a hood and hissing like the cobra.
Egyptian cobra (Upper part) The Egyptian cobra is a large species. The head is large and depressed and slightly distinct from the neck. The neck of this species has long cervical ribs capable of expanding to form a hood, like all other cobras. The snout of the Egyptian cobra is moderately broad and rounded. The eye is quite big with a round pupil.
According to Plutarch, the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, in preparing for her own suicide, tested various deadly poisons on condemned people and concluded that the bite of the asp (from the Greek word aspis, usually meaning an Egyptian cobra in Ptolemaic Egypt, and not the European asp) was the least terrible way to die; the venom brought ...
Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, died on either 10 or 12 August, 30 BC, in Alexandria, when she was 39 years old.According to popular belief, Cleopatra killed herself by allowing an asp (Egyptian cobra) to bite her, but according to the Roman-era writers Strabo, Plutarch, and Cassius Dio, Cleopatra poisoned herself using either a toxic ointment or by introducing the poison ...
Duke Health is a trial site for a drug that could be the first universal antivenom to treat any kind of snake bite — including North Carolina’s ubiquitous copperhead.
Hydrodynastes gigas is commonly referred to as the false water cobra, false cobra, South American water cobra, [3] and Brazilian smooth snake. In South America, it is sometimes referred to as boipevaçu. [5] In Spanish, it is called ñacaniná or yacaniná, [6] from the Guarani ñakanina ('alert head'). [7]
The king cobra is certainly a mesmerizing creature to behold, but it also packs an especially powerful and deadly venom. Indonesian music star Irma Bule was bitten by one in the midst of a ...
Raleigh’s 2021 snake scare. Three years ago, Raleigh will remember, another magnificent animal turned up on a North Raleigh porch — this one a spitting zebra cobra that sparked a citywide ...