The desert-dwelling Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) is the United States' largest and only native venomous lizard. Easily recognisable from its spotted orange-and-black skin, its bright armour ...

Which means it's not at all hyperbolic to say that at the root of one of the biggest health care advancements of this century is the poisonous venom of the Gila monster. That's worth noting ...

You can do all of that and end up with nothing,” Raufman said. After weeks of this work, he found that the venom that triggered the biggest reaction came from the gila monster, a large orange and ...

Gila monster isn't the only creature to have lent its chemical arsenal to modern medicine The bite of a Gila monster is venomous enough to harm a human, but hidden within its toxic cocktail lies a ...

"The biggest difference is that it's been really ... Some reptiles have an XX/XY system like mammals, but others like the Gila monster buck that for Z and W sex chromosomes. In the case of Gila ...