Deadly snakes or just pretending? The evolution of mimicry

May 5, 2016
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A researcher holds a handful of snakes. Image credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan PhotographyANN ARBOR—For more than a century, brightly banded and sometimes deadly coral snakes have been held up as textbook examples of a mimicry system shaped by evolution, in which a harmless species deters predators by imitating a harmful one.

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