A brother and sister skipping hand-in-hand down a dirt road where oblivious to the deadly snake lying in their path, and so ...

Stephen Mackessy, a biology professor at the University of Northern Colorado, holds a rattlesnake from the Yucatan in Mexico as its venom is extracted into a plastic beaker. For people in much of the ...

North Carolina is a state full of biodiversity, and snakes are no exception. Its diverse environments, from the mountains in the west to the coastal plains in the east, provide abundant habitat for 38 ...

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Scientists may have developed a snake bite antivenom that can be used for 17 different species of snakes, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The antivenom specifically targets ...

A tenth of a second is all a viper snake needs to land a bite. In Paris, a team filmed hundreds of venomous snakes and mapped their strike speed in 3D to see exactly how they do it. The work tracked ...

In a first, scientists recorded high-speed footage from dozens of venomous snakes as they went in for the kill. Reading time 3 minutes If you’ve ever been morbidly curious about what it would look ...

Few actions in nature inspire more fear and fascination than snake bites. And the venomous reptiles have to move fast to sink their fangs into their prey before their victim flinches, which may be as ...

A coroner in Australia has ruled that a boy who died in 2021 would have likely survived if the snake bite he received had been medically treated. Instead, the boy’s father thought the 11-year-old had ...

Ohio is home to three rare venomous snakes: the timber rattlesnake, the copperhead, and the massasauga rattlesnake. The timber rattlesnake and massasauga rattlesnake are both endangered species in ...