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

A poisonous red spitting cobra (Naja pallida) in front of a model of a toxic snake protein (orange) and a designed antitoxin protein. To be used only by news media reporting on research from the ...

It will try to spit when it is seriously threatened, but its aim is inaccurate, and this defense mechanism is much less effective than in the case of the black-necked or red spitting cobra.

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 ...

Warren Dick, The Bluff snake catcher, with the captured Mozambique spitting cobra. Photo: Supplied THE Bluff snake catcher, Warren Dick, successfully caught a massive Mozambique spitting cobra at ...