Every year, venomous snakes kill more people worldwide than sharks, lions, and wolves combined—yet most of us barely give ...

In 2001, after working up to it for years, Tim Friede finally allowed himself to be bitten by a snake. He started with venomous cobras because they're dangerous — and because they're what he had on ...

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

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

Snake expert Nick Evans warned South Africans about the small but dangerous Stiletto Snake, urging people and pet owners to ...

New research reveals snake venom primarily evolved for hunting and digesting prey, not for defence against humans or ...

Gunter Glasser has been catching snakes for almost 30 years across Southern Queensland, but October has been an especially ...

Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites... He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a ...