Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A venomous snake bite is not something you ever want to encounter ...

Researchers have developed a promising new antivenom effective against more than a dozen venemous snake species, according to trials in mice. Holger Krisp, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons An ...

In deserts, jungles and swamps around the world, snakes are waging a biochemical war against their prey. When a snake displays its fangs, it’s showing off one of evolution’s greatest weapons. This is ...

High-speed video helped researchers to get close-ups of the attack strategies of three snake families. By Ari Daniel Venomous snakes inhabit a different perceptual world than we do. “Before the mammal ...

From rubber tappers in Liberia to sugar cane farmers in South Africa, bites from venomous snakes are a constant worry. 1 In sub-Saharan Africa—which is home to green and black mambas, spitting cobras, ...

Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other deadly species. By Apoorva Mandavilli The video is just under two and a half ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. While only about 10 percent of the roughly 4,000 known snake ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Immunologist Jacob ...

A man who was bitten by a poisonous snake surprised doctors when the venom took 15 hours to start showing its effects. The South Australian man, named Neville Joppich, was bitten on the ankle by what ...

ATLANTA — Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times with the venom of some of the world's deadliest snakes, including cobras, ...