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 ...

A pair of reptile wranglers in Australia came to the rescue of a yellow-tailed whip snake that found its way into a ...

In a first, scientists recorded high-speed footage from dozens of venomous snakes as they went in for the kill.

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 ...

An oft-quoted fact about the inland taipan is that it could kill 250,000 mice or 100 adult humans with the venom of a single ...

A New South Wales, Australia, man called for help from professionals when a venomous tiger snake slithered across his foot ...

They found that venomous snakes use dramatically different strategies to deliver their deadly bites. Vipers and elapids ...

REPT copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Australia's venomous snakes are widely viewed as the world's most deadly and are regarded with cautious curiosity, fascination, and, ...

Advanced video techniques reveal exactly how snake bites work and show various snake species have evolved very different ...

Dozens of species of snakes have been captured on high-speed cameras, with researchers finding vipers were the fastest, but an Australian snake was not far behind.

Snakes have always fascinated and frightened people in equal measure. They have been symbols of danger, mystery, and survival, inciting curiosity and fear whenever spotted in the wild or anywhere. If ...

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