Oscaecilia ochrocephala is most commonly found in Panama and Colombia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, plantations, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former ...

Prototype treatment for snake bite envenoming proves effective against the venom of African and Asian elapid snakes, such as some cobra, mamba, and krait species, new research shows. Snakes bite 5.4 ...

Snakes exhibit a complex repertoire of defensive responses, shifting from one tactic to another depending upon conditions at the time of encounter with a potential predator. Standardized laboratory ...

Bungarus multicinctus, or the many-banded krait as it commonly called, is a highly venomous elapid snake widely distributed across southern Asia. Available antivenoms show good neutralizing efficacy ...

A lab-engineered antivenom (made using recombinant technology), offers a strong protection against Africa's most lethal snakebites. The new antivenom surpasses traditional antivenoms in efficacy.

A black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) snake, one of the species that the team’s new antivenom seems to protect mice from. Image: Stu Porter (Shutterstock) We might be soon on the verge of having a ...

In what is believed to be the first encounter captured on video, two wild snakes in Colombia were caught fighting over a meal recently in their natural habitats. Danish researchers Henrik Bringsøe and ...

JIMBOOMBA, QLD — It is the stuff of nightmares. A family in Australia realized one of the stuffed animals on their young daughter's bed was not actually a toy — it was a real and highly venomous snake ...

Genes in the eyes of sea snakes evolved rapidly over the course of 15 million years to allow them to see underwater, according to an international team of scientists. The aquatic reptile branched away ...