Scientists find rare tusked whale alive at sea for the first time — and shoot it with a crossbow Hoping to spend Trump’s ...

Venomous snakes produce some of the world’s deadliest substances, so they have to be pretty careful about how they use it.

On the Oct. 8 episode of "Survivor," a contestant was bitten by a venomous snake on the beach in Fiji, prompting medical personnel to pull him from the game. A sea krait bit the right foot of Canadian ...

A man in New Jersey has died from a meat allergy that people can develop after being bitten by certain tick species.

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 ...

A black mamba snake with its head resting on a leaf and its black, forked tongue coming out of its mouth. Researchers have developed an antivenom that effectively neutralizes bites from the black ...

A tenth of a second is all a viper snake needs to land a bite. In Paris, a team filmed hundreds of venomous snakes and mapped their strike speed in 3D to see exactly how they do it. The work tracked ...

People bitten by a black mamba, a venomous snake that lives in central and southern Africa, have just hours to live. The snake’s venom disrupts nerves and muscles, and eventually paralyses the lungs ...

The North American racer is one of Ohio's fastest and most aggressive snakes. While not venomous, racers can inflict a painful bite if they feel threatened. The species is divided into the black racer ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, snake bites are a major problem, and better antivenom treatments are required to prevent deaths and injuries. Writing in Nature, Ahmadi et al. 1 present a therapy that targets ...