The centre is home to about 150 of the world’s deadliest snakes, whose venom is regularly extracted through “milking”. Surprising as it may seem, the lethal compounds in snake venom are being used to ...

Like many other nudibranchs, the sea swallow harnesses the venom of its prey. But this small slug will also take on colonies of floating cnidarians. This includes the Portuguese man-o-war, an open-sea ...