S nake bites happen in the blink of an eye. Some can strike fleet-footed rodent prey in a flash of scales and fangs that ...

They found that venomous snakes use dramatically different strategies to deliver their deadly bites. Vipers and elapids ...

Colubrid snakes, such as the mangrove snake ( Boiga dendrophila ), which have fangs farther back in their mouths, lunged ...

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 ...

For over 60 million years, venomous snakes have thrived thanks to their unique biting mechanisms. A new journal study has used advanced video techniques to uncover how different species deliver deadly ...

A new study shows how different snake species have evolved very different strategies to deliver their deadly bites.

Antivenom, also known as antivenin, is an umbrella term for purified antibodies which work against venoms or parts of venoms.

How fast is a venomous snake really when it strikes? A study provides the most accurate high-speed footage to date of 36 ...

For more than 60 million years, venomous snakes have slithered across the Earth. These ancient, chemical weapon-wielding ...

Vipers launched from coils with smooth, explosive acceleration. If the first stab wasn’t perfect, they “walked” a fang out ...

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

Snake venom contains many proteins that damage the body, though key toxic sites often remain similar across species.