Many of us know snakes are ectothermic reptiles that regulate their body temperature behaviorally by using shade, burrows, ...

As many as 137,000 people die from snakebites every year. Venom from snakes can cause internal bleeding, attack the nervous system, and even stop the heart. Making anti-venom is an expensive ...

Although snake venom generally has a pretty nasty effect on people, it's also used in the production of life-saving antivenoms, along with various other medications. It could soon be much easier to ...

If you’re unlucky enough to have a poisonous snake sink its fangs into you, your best hope is an antivenom, which has been made in the same way since Victorian times. It involves milking snake venom ...

A group of hikers ventured into a mountainous rainforest in southern Mexico on a humid night. Around 1 a.m., they encountered a 2-foot-long snake moving through the leaves — and found a deadly species ...

The venom glands of snakes are among nature’s most potent weapons. Hans Clevers can now grow them in his lab, mass-producing little disembodied blobs that secrete the same cocktail of toxins as their ...

Diversity in diet plays a role in the complexity of venom in pit vipers such as rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouths. But new collaborative research found the number of prey species a snake ate ...