If you’ve ever been unlucky enough to clean up after a snake, you might’ve noticed that they don’t exactly pee like we do. Instead of liquid waste, reptiles expel a weird chalky solid. That’s called “urates.” Some researchers looked into what that stuff even is and found something somewhat surprising: snakes crystallize their pee, and […] The post Snake Pee Might Hold the Secret to Curing Gout appeared first on VICE.