A variety of snakes preserved at the Instituto Clodomiro Picado, in Costa Rica, a world leader in venom antidote ... the extraction of venom from a live snake, sometimes called “milking.” ...

This is a close mimic of the coral snake, but the real version has a singular venom. Flickr user Joe Townsend When he returned home to France after a stay in Costa Rica in 1983, Jean-Pierre Rosso ...