Yellowstone National Park is one of the most famous parks in the United States, but it isn’t usually known for its reptiles. Nevertheless, there are plenty of snakes that live in the park, with some ...

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

Instead, intellectual integrity should make us open to indirect evidence that comes from beyond the realm of ordinary ...

Over 5 million people are bitten by snakes every year, according to the World Health Organization. Many effective antivenoms ...

Invasive species are wreaking havoc on ecosystems around the world. US company Inversa is turning some of them into leather, which it says is more environmentally friendly than traditional leather.

More than a dozen types of pythons and over 30 other snakes, including a ghost Aztec jungle boa, were found packed in the ...

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

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

Discover the wide range of fish and freshwater creatures that call the Tennessee River and its surrounding valley home.

To do this, they first immunized the camelids with venoms collected from 18 African snake species. Next, they extracted ...

These animals have evolved a suite of clever strategies to keep out of harm’s way. The 10 snakes faced a tough predicament.

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 ...