Queensland experts Chris Hay and Christina Zdenek run snake handling courses to bust myths and teach professionals how to ...

While the quickest recorded death from a Sydney funnel-web spider was a toddler at 13 minutes, the average is closer to 76 ...

Years ago, a large Tiger Shark took Colin Cook's leg and nearly killed him. Now, he's a world champion and surfs more then ...

Scientists have developed a potentially universal antivenom using antibodies from a hyper-immune human donor, offering broad ...

When two employees at the East Bay Vivarium in Berkeley, California, pulled a baby snake from the incubator seven months ago, ...

A metre-long venomous snake was spotted crossing a busy road and heading east towards Australia’s iconic Bondi Beach. It was ...

This week we saw one of the most remarkable rounds of rugby league ever, contributing to plenty of movement on the snakes and ...

One man’s habit of injecting himself with the venom of the world’s deadliest snakes has led to the creation of a new ...

The antitoxin antibodies found in the blood of a Wisconsin man—who voluntarily let snakes bite him for alm0st 20 years—is ...

If you’ve ever spent time in the Australian bush, you’ll know that snakes are just a part of life—albeit a slithery, ...

Mr Friede began injecting himself with venom back in the 2000s to try and create an immunity to his venomous pet snakes, but ...

By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly effective antivenom to date, which is protective against the likes ...