Vipers lose status as snakes with the fastest strike
Tue, 03/22/2016 - 11:37am
David Penning, a doctoral student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is leading a research project that challenges some popular notions about venomous snake strikes. Photo by Doug Dugas/University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Vipers—venomous snakes such as rattlesnakes and cottonmouths—are commonly thought to possess the quickest strikes.
Not so fast, according to three researchers at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
