Every year, venomous snakes kill more people worldwide than sharks, lions, and wolves combined—yet most of us barely give ...

Coastal Taipan Credit: Wikimedia Commons The coastal taipan doesn’t want attention. But step too close, and it can deliver a venom dose strong enough to clot blood and paralyze nerves. Before ...

But for Tim Friede, a self-taught venom expert from Wisconsin, the answer came after two decades of deliberate, repeated exposure to some of the deadliest snakes in the world. Years of extreme ...