Cornwall Project Will Examine How Roads, Rivers and Habitat Fragmentation Affect Adders
A new Cornwall project will investigate how roads, rivers and fragmented habitats affect adder populations and their movement…
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Balkan Adder Provided the First Wild Scavenging Record for Vipera berus
An adult female Balkan adder on Vitosha Mountain was found swallowing a dead bank vole whose severe injuries…
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Genomic Scan Linked Gossa’s Rare Adder Stripe Morph to a Region Containing PMEL
A 2026 genome scan of 76 adders on Gossa in western Norway linked the island’s rare longitudinal stripe…
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Detection Dog Found an Adder Hibernaculum Without the Handler Knowing Its Location
A trained dog found 69 of 70 buried adder-scent samples in blinded field tests and independently located one…
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Male and Female Adder Venoms Showed Highly Similar Composition and Bioactivity
A 2026 study of captive-bred adders originating from northern Bavaria found little evidence of sex-based venom variation: pooled…
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