Snakes have adapted to nearly every continent on Earth, thriving in a range of habitats, from steaming rainforests to arid ...

Snakebites affect millions of people each year, and tens of thousands of deaths are attributed to venomous encounters ...

For nearly two decades, an American mechanic turned self-taught snake expert has done something that sounds suicidal at first ...

Braydon survived a deadly brown snake bite once. Four years later, it happened again -this time with no help and no first aid ...

From rubber tappers in Liberia to sugar cane farmers in South Africa, bites from venomous snakes are a constant worry. 1 In sub-Saharan Africa—which is home to green and black mambas, spitting cobras, ...

A wave of fresh science is challenging a century-old treatment and offering hope to the people snakebites harm most—often far from hospitals and help A rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus) in Hluhluwe, ...

Victorians are urged to be on the look out for deadly snakes as temperatures rise, with new data showing 3000 people are ...

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 ...

The antitoxin antibodies found in the blood of a Wisconsin man—who voluntarily let snakes bite him for alm0st 20 years—is helping scientists create better antivenom drugs for snakebites. By combing ...