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July 9, 2012 01:09 pm PDT

You cannot poison an opossum

As we established last week, marsupial biology is freaking crazy. Here's more proof. For this, you don't even need to go to exotic Australia. The common American opossum produces a protein called Lethal Toxin-Neutralizing Factor (LTNF). This protein does pretty much what the name implies—seeking out potentially deadly poisons and neutralizing them. The benefit: Opossums [...]


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