A recent study found that copperheads often strike in under 0.1 seconds, and their fangs can break when they bite.

It should be no surprise to anyone who lives in Texas that at some time, somewhere, you or your pet will likely encounter a snake when you're outside. But did you know that snake bites are on the rise ...

Medicine is not helpless. Snake bites can be neutralised with antivenom, but that is often not to hand in the remote parts of ...

Durban-based vet warns owners to intervene rather than film when their pets, particularly dogs, are under snake threat ...

It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick ...

Govinda Kumar grabbed the snake when he was playing at home in the village of Bankatwa, India - Times of India A toddler in India bit a venomous cobra so hard that he killed it. Two-year-old Govinda ...

A man was critically injured in Kaiserslautern on Friday when a rattlesnake bit him in the face as he helped a friend move the venomous pet into a new terrarium, city police said. The snake escaped ...

A Westbrook woman said she feels unsafe after her beloved dog died from a snakebite, as vets report an increase in snake ...

A Sioux Falls man was bit by his pet snake, a venomous African forest cobra, on Sept. 7. That snake and two other pet snakes have been taken to Reptile Gardens in Rapid City. Sioux Falls Animal ...

A Whitsunday man’s night at home in front of the TV watching footy took a surprise turn when he went to grab a beer and found ...

A North Carolina family said their 4-year-old was bitten by a venomous snake on the playground of a day care, but staff failed to call emergency services and reached out to a guardian instead. The boy ...