Safetylit: Non-Human Animals and Insectshttp://www.safetylit.org/Welcome to SafetyLit, the online source for recent research about injury prevention.Convergent Evolution: Pick Your Poison Carefully. - Brodie ED. Non-Human Animals and Insectshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_183597_32Genomic and biochemical analyses reveal that two independently evolved serine protease venoms in mammals and lizards have converged on nearly identical protein structures. Likewise, in two groups of frog, an identical toxin, caerulein, has arisen repeatedl...Spider poisoning: a report of six cases from the Central Anatolian region, Turkey. - Akyildiz B, Kurtoglu S, Poyrazoğlu H, Ozcan A. Non-Human Animals and Insectshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184098_32Spiders exist in every place and ecosystem. Spiders in tropical regions are particularly poisonous and can be dangerous to humans. Nearly 20,000 spider species are known, and almost all are venomous, although only 60 species worldwide are poisonous in huma...