My bearded dragon has rattlesnake toxins in its venom.

After spending a day researching Dr. Bryan Grieg Fry's work on reptile venoms I am beginning to have some realisation of the impact it will have on our understanding of reptile evolution, reptile venom and even the reptile trade.

Books will have to be rewritten and basically our biology trees for reptiles redrawn. Whilst we have know this for some two years, the more recent work on lizard venoms has highlighted the changes even further.

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These venoms also offer some interesting medical opportunities.

I had an email today from someone who had photographed his cage making efforts and made a fake wall. While the cage is not finished, it looks good and he informs me that he intends to make some more reptile cages using my reptile cage plans. You can see some of his handiwork with homemade reptile cages here.