Most venomous snakes, including grass snakes, have fangs positioned in the rear of the mouth, while a few groups, including rattlesnakes, cobras and vipers, have fangs jutting down from their upper ...

Discover how a cobra’s fang sheath hides deadly teeth and see how this mother guards her eggs while reshaping myths about snakes.

image: Types of venom fangs in snakes: rear fangs (crab-eating water snake), fixed front fangs (taipan), and hinged front fangs (Gaboon viper); fangs highlighted in red (image credit A. Palci) ...

A venomous snake with three sharp fangs has been found in an unprecedented discovery in Australia. The death adder with a rare mutation was spotted during a venom milking programme at the Australian ...

Snake wrangler Mike Kimmel thought he was a goner when he grabbed a 17-foot python by the tail and the huge serpent reared up ...

This new species of snail-eating snake “Dipsas bobridgelyi” was named after an American ornithologist and conservationist. (Photo by Alejandro Arteaga) Five new species of snail-eating snake, from a ...

Different snake species have independently evolved fangs that allow them to inject venom into other animals, either to attack prey or for defence. Now we know how: they turned small wrinkles inside ...

The world hosts hundreds of wildly different venomous snake species, from brightly banded coral snakes to camouflaged cottonmouths. But somehow even distantly related species independently evolved ...

A tiny skull found on a beach in Devon has rewritten the early history of lizards, snakes and the tuatara, the last survivor ...

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The sheriff's office posted photos of Deputy Rebecca Galeazzo removing "Sir Buzzy Pants," the rattlesnake, from the Burger King playground where it was hiding.