A venomous cottonmouth is giving people the willies on social media, after a video recorded by an Alabama biologist showed the snake was caught blending in perfectly with ground cover. Cottonmouths, ...

From dense jungles to the depths of the world’s oceans, certain creatures dominate their habitats due to their lethal venom.

The colorful coral snake is the most venomous snake in Arizona. Here is the best way to avoid coral snakes and what to do if ...

Researchers have published the first example of a synthetic sugar detection test for snake venom, offering a new route to rapid diagnosis and better antivenoms.

Researchers at The University of Warwick have published the first example of a synthetic sugar detection test for snake venom, offering a new route to rapid diagnosis and better antivenoms.

On the one hand, the mortality rate from native Florida snake bites between zero and 0.01% annually, according to the National Institutes of Health — and that is from roughly 300 venomous ...

There are 21 snake species that are native to Pennsylvania, and three of them are venomous.Eastern copperheadThe copperhead reaches an average adult size of 24 to 36 inches.The body is copper or ...

The first antibody in the cocktail, LNX-D09, protected mice from a lethal dose of venom from six different snake species. The team then added a small molecule, varespladib, a toxin inhibitor that ...

Tim Friede, a Wisconsin man, has been injecting himself with snake venom for 18 years, racking up hundreds of injections and snake bites in his personal quest to attempt to become immune to the ...

Tim Friede, a self-taught snake expert based in California, exposed himself to the venom of snakes over the course of nearly 18 years. Scientists used his blood to help create a new antivenom.