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asp

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as in adder

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Recent Examples of asp But this area of research could mean that one day, the asp caterpillar’s venom could bring not only pain but relief. —

Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023 The team revealed that the venom of asp caterpillars, also known as puss caterpillars, contains a special protein that can form into a ring shape and poke holes in cells. —

Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2023 The researchers believe the caterpillars’ unique venom-delivery adaptation developed some 400 million years ago, when bacteria transferred the special cell-infiltrating gene into an asp. —

Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2023 Egypt fell to Rome in 30 B.C., after Caesar Augustus (at that time still called Octavian) defeated the forces of Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium, and the Queen, according to a version given by Plutarch—and then, memorably, by Shakespeare—placed an asp on her breast and died. —

The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021 Cleopatra killed herself — by the bite of an asp, according to Plutarch. —

Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2020 When her husband, the Roman general Mark Antony, died in her arms in 30 BCE, Cleopatra took her own life soon after by allowing an asp to bite her by, according to popular belief. —

Christian Edwards, CNN, 10 Nov. 2022 The supplement’s three most potent ingredients are D-aspartic acid (D-asp), fenugreek, and zinc. —

Dallas News, 18 May 2022 The couple committed suicide—Antony by stabbing himself in the stomach, and Cleopatra by the bite of an asp (or, alternatively, by some other poison). —

Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2022

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The death adder’s plight illustrates another important point: In a 2013 review of the relevant scientific literature to date, Robertson and his colleagues concluded that exotic species are the single largest cause of evolutionary traps.

— Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
This attitude poses a threat to Europe’s adder populations, already on the decline because of habitat destruction.

— ByPhie Jacobs, science.org, 20 Sep. 2024