Most preppers know that prepping for an emergency situation is an on-going process. This is because things change around us all the time. We have to be ready for anything no matter what the circumstances. We also have to be aware of new species that are found especially if they could be dangerous to us or to our families.
Knowing all we can about the plants and animals that made live where we have to stay may be the most important survival skill of all!
Everything Preppers Need to Know About the Newly Discovered Venomous Snake Is:
The Talamancan palm-pitviper was discovered through genetics. The snake, which lives in a remote, forested region of Central America, was long mistaken for a closely related species, the black-speckled palm-pitviper. When University of Central Florida biologist Christopher Parkinson performed a genetic analysis of the black-specked palm-pitviper, he and his team found differences between specimens, suggesting that these might be two separate species.
The new Talamancan palm-pitviper, in contrast, is found only in the northern and central Cordillera de Talamanca, the mountain range that sits on the border of Costa Rica and Panama.
The palm-pitvipers make up an interesting group because of their neurotoxic venom. The black-speckled palm-pitviper kills with a toxin called nigroviriditoxin, Spanish and Costa Rican researchers reported in January 2015 in the journal Toxicon. This toxin had previously been found only in rattlesnakes, raising questions about whether it evolved independently in rattlers and palm-pitvipers or was present in a common ancestor of the two.
It is amazing how this snake has the kind of venom only before found in rattlesnakes. It makes many of us wonder how it happened and if it can happen with other animals as well as they keep evolving.
Since their venom is as dangerous as a rattlesnake, you definitely don't want to get catch near why they live. You could put yourself and those you care about in even more danger when a collapse occurs!
To find out more about this new snake, you can visit Live Science.
Featured Image via University of Central Florida
I am going to remain in the Nebraska region, specifically east Nebraska west Iowa area, due to the lack of poisonous snakes, the quick, and brutal climate change, and the great amount of farmland to rebuild a small society, and begin farming food immediately.