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An international team of researchers has uncovered “unprecedented” snake venom resistance in an unexpected species—the legless amphibians known as caecilians.
The University of Queensland’s Associate Professor Bryan Fry led the study, which he said provides a solid model for the fundamental evolutionary concept of predator-prey interactions.
“The caecilian’s ability to persevere and evolve despite these pressures is like a movie—like the survivors of Judgment Day fighting back by changing the chemical landscape.”
The team studied caecilian species from across all known families across the globe, including species in the Seychelles islands never reached by elapid snakes.
Dr. Fry said the caecilians were able to achieve this never-before-seen venom resistance by deploying three different kinds of biological methods.
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