As part of his research, David joined an expedition off the northwest coast of Australia, working with colleagues and world experts to take tissue samples from around 70 sea snakes, of seven species.

The Marine Education Society of Australia states that this common species is accountable for about 90% of all reported sea snake bite deaths. Owing to the curvature of its nostrils, it is also ...

Can you accurately identify some of the most common snakes found across eastern and southern Australia? We spoke to expert Chris Hay, the director of the Australian Reptile Academy, to find out ...

and many Australian species. This snake can be found on dark, sandy ocean floors and live up to 164 feet (50 meters) beneath the water’s surface, feeding largely on eels. Yellow sea snakes can ...

Australia has an abundance of true sea snakes, with about half of the 70 or so named species found here. They have evolved to fill a wide variety of niches, and although many are not yet listed as ...

Olive sea snakes (Aipysurus laevis) are notorious for approaching ... now a research scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia, was working ...

Hudson Snake Catching in Gold Coast, Australia, was tasked with removing the eastern brown snake hatchling Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A man described feeling “the shudders” as more than 100 venomous red-bellied black snakes were removed from a pile of mulch in his Sydney backyard. David Stein ...

COURTESY HDOA State agriculture officials said today that a highly venomous, yellow-bellied sea snake washed up at Honolii Beach in Hilo last week. COURTESY HDOA State agriculture officials said ...