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 ...

That’s because in a race of reflexes, the snake usually wins. For a mouse or human, it takes less than half a second to register a threat and react. But venomous snakes are capable of launching ...

File. A man collects snake venom from a Russell’s Viper to make anti-venom at The Bengal Chemical & Pharmaceutical Company in Kolkata, India (AFP/Getty) A 41-year-old man in the southern Indian state ...

The mystery of the mock viper—a unique species of snake that mimics other highly venomous species—has finally been solved by scientists. The mock viper, native to Asia, is only mildly venomous itself, ...

Learn how the spider-tailed horned viper uses predatory mimicry and a spider-shaped tail to lure birds in Iran.

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.

A man in India has died after snake venom caused his blood vessels to leak, even following treatment with 30 bottles of antivenom. The 40-year-old male patient was rushed to Midnapore Medical College ...

SAN DIEGO (KABC) -- A wildlife care specialist at the San Diego Zoo was hospitalized after being bitten a venomous snake. Officials say the worker was caring for an African Bush Viper in a non-public ...

Scientists bought “snake liquor” in North Korea and identified its contents as the country’s first confirmed records of three venomous species of pit vipers. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto In hopes of ...