Early hominids had an increased resistance to cobra venom

Snake poison can kill, but the last (yet unidentified) common ancestor of humans, chimps, and gorillas had an unusually high resistance against cobra venom.

Venomous Animals Kill in Horrible Ways—And Also Cure

Extreme evolution: How snakes became the über-eater

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Snake Catcher Lets Cobras Bite Him Every Week to Build Up Venom Immunity

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Slither Into the World of Snake Venom Research

Snake Venomics of Bitis Species Reveals Large Intragenus Venom Toxin Composition Variation: Application to Taxonomy of Congeneric Taxa

When the Cobra Bites, You'll Be Glad Someone Sequenced Its Genome - The New York Times

Snake stem cells create real venom to use as medicine

Peptide Inhibitors of the α-Cobratoxin–Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Interaction

Blue Coral Snakes Have Venom Unlike Any Other Snake

The man who protects himself using snake venom

Monkeying around with venom: an increased resistance to α-neurotoxins supports an evolutionary arms race between Afro-Asian primates and sympatric cobras, BMC Biology

The king cobra genome reveals dynamic gene evolution and adaptation in the snake venom system