An Australian boy died after being told to "sleep off" his venomous snake bite. Don't do that if one of Ohio's three venomous ...

The United States is home to many snake species. While most are harmless, some can be very dangerous to humans. Knowing which ...

Every year, 5.4 million people are bitten by snakes. While not all of these snakes are venomous, nearly half are. Of the 2.7 million people poisoned by venomous snake bites each year, between 81,000 ...

A man who was bitten by a poisonous snake surprised doctors when the venom took 15 hours to start showing its effects. The South Australian man, named Neville Joppich, was bitten on the ankle by what ...

A group of hikers ventured into a mountainous rainforest in southern Mexico on a humid night. Around 1 a.m., they encountered a 2-foot-long snake moving through the leaves — and found a deadly species ...

These days, anything unusual in nature often grabs attention, especially on social media. Bright yellow animals are one such ...

A snake's lightning-quick bite is the perfect way to inject venom into prey. Aiding and abetting this violent attack are the long, curved fangs snakes have evolved to dose their next meal with venom — ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Diversity in diet plays a role in the complexity of venom in pit vipers such as rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouths. But new collaborative research found the number of prey species a snake ate ...

When Ron Gollobin disappeared into snake hell and descended into the expansive tangle of a veritable cottonmouth nest on a four-month hunt, he undertook the most outrageous summer job ever performed ...

Doctors sent Jake Latimer home after he was bitten by a banded sea krait, a docile but highly venomous snake. Sea kraits have ...