They found that venomous snakes use dramatically different strategies to deliver their deadly bites. Vipers and elapids ...

That’s because in a race of reflexes, the snake usually wins. For a mouse or human, it takes less than half a second to ...

Vipers have the fastest strikes, but snakes from other families can give some slower vipers stiff competition.

Few actions in nature inspire more fear and fascination than snake bites. And the venomous reptiles have to move fast to sink ...

A recent study found that copperheads often strike in under 0.1 seconds, and their fangs can break when they bite.

They say to kill a rattlesnake, just shoot in its general direction and it’ll intercept the bullet, inadvertently killing itself. The lunging movements of rattlesnakes and other vipers have been ...