How These Snakes Evolved to Spit… IN YOUR EYE

If you spook a spitting cobra, it might literally shoot venom at your eyes... And our ancestors might have caused them to do this, evolutionarily speaking.

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Sources:
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb9303
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1995.tb02743.x
https://doi.org/10.1086/595589
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1115116108

Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mozambique_spitting_cobra_(Naja_mossambica).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naja_nigricollis_(Warren_Klein).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naja-siamensis-indochinese-spitting-cobra-southwest-thailand.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkhals2.jpg
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancient_Azerbaijan_4.jpg
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https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/interesting-animal-behavior-with-a-male-chimpanzee-walking-upright-like-a-human-gm966163804-263619522
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/254166.php?from=490021
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/naja-samarensis-samar-cobra-gm964938056-263388449
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/naja-siamensis-gm915032206-251836659
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mozamique-spitting-cobra-gm509492843-45896202