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Media Coverage

Below are some examples of the media coverage of my research as well as the the material from the media platforms that I have worked with.  While there are many other articles, they likely derive in part from these original sources.
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National Geographic: Snake Kills Bigger Snake With World's Most Powerful Squeeze. By Marcus Woo

New York Times:  (Nat Geo Syndication) Snake Kills Bigger Snake with World's Most Powerful Squeeze.

Nature: Kingsnakes Go For the Big Squeeze.

Science News: A King Snake's Strength is in its Squeeze. By Elizabeth Eaton 

The Atlantic: How to Kill a Snake When You're a Snake. By Ed Yong

The Science Times: Kingsnakes Use the World's Most Lethal Squeeze to Kill Much Bigger Opponents. By Kumar Rahul


Live Science: 'King of Snakes' Defeats Larger Serpents by Squeezing Them to Death. By Laura Geggel

DailyMail (UK): The Secret of the Kingsnake's Killer Coil Revealed: 'Astonishing' Constriction Forces Key to its Ability to Win Battles With Larger Snakes. By Cecile Borkhataria

Wissenschaft aktuell (Germany): Technik statt Muskeln: Wenn Schlangen Schlangen Verschlingen. By Joachim Czichos

De Standaard (Belgium): Hoe een wurgslang een wurgslang wurt. By Pieter Van dooren

Ciencia (Spain): Las Serpiente Pequena Que se Come a la Serpiente Grande. By Antonio Martinez Ron

SciMex (Australia/New Zealand): Best Constrictor or Not, Kingsnakes Eat Larger Snakes for Breakfast.


Yahoo News (Canada): How to Kill a Snake When You're a Snake.

Best China News (China): Two Snakes Fight, Who Will Win?

Yahoo News: How to Kill a Snake When You're a Snake.

Dailymotion: The Coil of a Kingsnake That Makes it Dangerous. By Wochit Headline News

MSN: The Coil of a Kingsnake That Makes it Dangerous.

University of Louisiana at Lafayette: Researchers Learn Why Kingsnakes Reign Over Constrictors. 

Discovery Channel's Daily Planet filmed a short documentary about some of my resent work.
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Missouri Southern State University's The Chart featured portions of my work.
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Missouri Southern State University: Snake, Rattle, and Roll. ​
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​Sierra Magazine:
The Science of a Snakebite. By Jason Daley

Mother Nature Network: Snakes are Amazing! 5 of Their Most Extraordinary Abilities. By Jaymi Heimbuch

La Louisiane: Surprising Serpents. By Charlie Bier
Bio Web: The 8th World Congress of Herpetology. By Martyn Drabik-Hamshare

PBS: Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of Giant Beasts.   
BBC Earth: Almost All Snakes Have the Same, Mindboggling Superpower. By David Cox

Daily Mail UK:
When Snakes Strike: High-Speed Footage Reveals How Reptiles Pounce on Their Prey in the Blink of An Eye. By Sarah Griffiths

Discovery Channel's Daily Planet: Debunking the Viper.


Discover Magazine: Even Harmless Snakes Strike at Deadly Speed. By Elizabeth Preston 

Huffington Post: Snake Videos Show How Serpents Put Fighter Pilots to Shame. By David Freeman

I F***ing Love Science: Harmless Snakes Strike Just As Fast As Vipers. By Janet Fang


Los Angeles Times: Myth Busted: Vipers Aren't the Fastest Snake in the World.  Others are Just as Fast. By Sean Greene

Live Science: Snakes on Planes? Serpents Accelerate Faster than Fighter Pilots. By Charles Q. Choi

​Louisiana Radio Network: Viper Debunked as Fastest Striking Snake in the World. 

National Geographic: Snake Myth Debunked Thanks to New High-Speed Video. By Michael Greshko

Nature: Snakes Strike With Super Speed. 


New York Times: Debunking the Viper's Strike. By Samantha Stark and James Gorman

​Phys.org:
 Vipers Found to Not Have the Fastest Strike After All. By Bob Yirka

Reptiles Magazine: You Think Vipers are the Fastest Strikers? Think Again! By John Virata

Science: These Snakes Strike in Half the Blink of an Eye. By Patrick Monahan


Science News: Plain ol' Texas Rat Snake Basically Match Vipers for Speed.
 By Susan Milius

Smithsonian: To Scientists' Surprise, Even Nonvenomous Snakes Can Strike at Ridiculous Speeds. By Marcus Woo

The Scientist: Harmless But Zippy. By Catherine Offord


University of Central Missouri Magazine: Speed Demons of the Snake World. By Dalene Abner

​University of Louisiana at Lafayette:
 
Vipers Lose Rep as Snakes With the Fastest Strike.

Yahoo News: Snakes on Planes? Serpents Accel
erate Faster than Fighter Pilots. By Charles Q. Choi

​2015

Serpent Research: Death By Constriction, a Fourth Possible Cause. By John Murphy

Science Channel: The Longest Kiss Goodbye. 

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