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What evolutionary factors make a region have a lot of venomous snakes compared to other areas with many snakes? (I'm looking at you, Australia.) What makes for snakes with incredibly deadly (to us) venom as opposed to, say, a rattlesnake-venom level of toxicity?

by /u/mellowmonk in /r/askscience

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