Scientists filmed 36 snake species to study their strike speed. They found vipers, elapids, and colubrids each use unique ...

WESTLAND — With a frightening array of creepy, crawly critters, Great Lakes Serpentarium will fittingly open its doors with a ...

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 ...

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

Snakes don’t always get credit in the brains department. With no limbs and a blank stare, they’ve been cast as simple predators, slithering on instinct, but some snakes are surprisingly clever. While ...

Snakebite envenoming is among the world's deadliest yet most overlooked tropical diseases. The WHO has classified snakebite ...

The other is that snakes don’t gather in general, since people tend to only come across one snake at a time. “So there was ...

Snake venom contains many proteins that damage the body, though key toxic sites often remain similar across species.

Researchers have for the first time closely tracked the fine-scale diving behavior of two species of sea snakes that forage ...

If you ever get bitten by a snake, don’t believe what you see in the movies. Tying a tourniquet, slicing your arm, or trying ...

A new species of giant anaconda, the northern green anaconda (Eunectes akayima), has been discovered in Ecuador's Amazon ...