Woodrats weigh less than half a pound but can survive venomous rattlesnake bites that would hospitalize, or even kill, a full ...

Scientists in Costa Rica are injecting venom into horses to create antibodies to treat humans bitten by snakes. Veterinarians at the Clodomiro Picado Institute breed poisonous snakes and extract their ...

A wave of fresh science is challenging a century-old treatment and offering hope to the people snakebites harm most—often far ...

A raised hood may look familiar, but science reveals King cobras and common cobras differ sharply in venom, behaviour, and ...

Study: Tandem duplication of SERPIN genes yields functional variation and snake venom inhibitors (DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaf290)Woodrats weigh less than ...

Snakebite envenoming kills over 100,000 people each year and leaves hundreds of thousands more with permanent disabilities. Yet for two decades, one man repeatedly faced this danger head‑on-by letting ...

A captive snake in Australia has broken the world record for the most venom produced in one go, according to the creature's keepers. With a single bite, the snake — a coastal taipan (Oxyuranus ...

Meet the spitting cobras – venomous snakes capable of projecting venom with remarkable accuracy to deter threats.

There are various types of widow spiders, including black, red, and brown varieties in North and South America, the Australian redback spider, and several button spider species that inhabit South ...