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

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 ...

A viper can bite its target faster than you can blink. It’s so fast that for decades, biologists have struggled to investigate it in detail. Now, with a battery of high-speed cameras and a cast of 36 ...

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

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Researchers at the University of Kentucky are searching for signs of a fungal disease impacting the state's native snakes.

It’s the sixth-oldest river on the North American continent. Discover the fish and animals that call the Ohio River home.

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

Dozens of species of snakes have been captured on high-speed cameras, with researchers finding vipers were the fastest, but ...