sea snake

If you want to find a sea snake, you have to go out searching for one.

Similarity of 86.7% was observed with both Small-headed sea snake (Microcephalophis gracilis) and Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus).

Mr Evans, who was on a backpacking trip, is said to have died onboard the boat about two hours after the black-ringed sea snake struck.

Craig Garraway, of St John Ambulance, said: "A trawler off Groote Eylandt had reported that one of their male crewmen had been bitten by a sea snake.

Venoms of snakes belonging to the families Elapidae (mainly cobras and mambas) and Hydrophiinae (mainly sea snakes) are highly neurotoxic and produce flaccid paralysis and respiratory paralysis in animals [2,11-15].

The only snake antivenom in New Zealand is held at Auckland Hospital and it is CSL Polyvalent Snake Antivenom, which is effective against sea snake bites.

But there are threats out there too like a monstrous sea snake who is out to get the adventurous pearl.

Yemm invented the "sea snake" wave energy converter when he founded Pelamis Wave Power in Edinburgh in 1998.

Nintendo DS players will trace, tap, shout, and scribble their way through challenges such as riding a unicorn over the rainbow and floating in a magic bubble across Sea Snake Lake.

(90) In 1959 a Papuan black snake antivenene was released, followed two years later by an antivenene for sea snake envenomation.

(Kids aren't the only ones who'll be reaching out to bat away an approaching sea snake.)

Attempt to pluck up Alison aborted as deadly sea snake surfaces beside her.

No practitioner reported having treated a sea snake or taipan bite, and only a single practitioner reported treating a tiger snake, brown snake or black snake bite.

Cradling a six-foot sea snake and exclaiming over a massive crocodile called Kennedy, Irwin bubbles with enthusiasm for his critters and their conservation.

Hence the species on page 156 is the Yellow Sea Snake and not the Short Sea Snake described on the facing page.