Poison Nil: Snake and Scorpion Antivenoms Set for First Update in 60 Years

Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 07:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

On a dark night in the late '80s Alejandro Alagón was working in his garden near Cuernavaca, Mexico, when he felt a sharp pain in his hand while moving a rock. He flipped the stone over and saw an especially poisonous scorpion squashed beneath it. [More]

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