Few creatures inspire awe and terror quite like the formidable snake, but some of these voracious reptiles are more deadly ...

King cobra and spitting cobra are highly venomous snakes with different venom delivery methods and behaviors. King cobra, the ...

The Mozambique spitting cobra, one of Africa's most dangerous snakes, can spit venom accurately up to 3 meters. Its venom contains neurotoxins and cytotoxins, causing paralysis and severe tissue ...

A team at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine are experts at collecting snake venom. But spitting cobras are a double threat. Venom has a complex evolutionary history and the reason some cobras ...

According to the African Snakebite Institute, the Mozambique spitting cobra is mostly active at night and often enters houses. Although it accounts for the majority of serious snakebite cases in ...

FOR three months, a Chatsworth chicken farmer allowed a Mozambican spitting cobra to live on his farm as it protected his stock from rodents. But when it posed a risk to his employees, Lee Pather ...

In between, rescuing snakes from humans (or visa versa), he assisted a Tweni farmer and his wife from the lethal venom of a Mozambique spitting cobra. It was a close call for Tanya Nadauld, who ...