Q: I planted foxgloves because I love their spikes of colorful, speckled, bell-shaped flowers. My cat Stormy is walking ...

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

Critters consuming species that harbor deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to keep out of harm’s way.

New broad-spectrum antivenom, made up of just eight nanobodies to counter venom from diverse sub-Saharan African snake ...

Researchers immunized an alpaca and a llama with snake venoms, and combined some of the antibodies produced into a potent ...

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

Encountering a garden snake is often a sign of a healthy ecosystem, with many species being harmless and beneficial pest ...

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

Colubrid snakes, such as the mangrove snake (Boiga dendrophila), which have fangs farther back in their mouths, lunged towards the prey from further away. With their jaws clamped over it, they'd make ...

Actor Walton Goggins recently shared a harrowing experience while filming a scene for the TV series ‘White Lotus’—he was ...

Fear of snakes is common, especially in Sri Lanka. However, most snakebites involve non-venomous species. These bites cause ...

Snakes are in the mood, and the expert advice is to step out of their way during this mating season. The number of snake ...