Snake diet find aids anti-venom. bbcnews. April 9, 2009.New research by a Bangor university student has found that the diet of poisonous snakes affects its venom strength.Axel Barlow’s discovery means that anti-venom can be developed specific to a certain snake’s location or diet.His studies into saw-scaled vipers, which have evolved to eat scorpions, found that they also had venom which was more lethal to scorpions. [ See ]