Made up of five smaller townships, Snake Park is home to about 5,000 properties built under South Africa's Reconstruction and ...

A Cape Town snake expert shocked Mzansi after sharing a photo of himself watching rugby with a venomous boomslang, leaving ...

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 ...

Families and relatives of those injured or who perished in May 2024 when a five-storey development in George collapsed are 'spitting snakes' at claims that South African Police Service (SAPS) ...

Scientists have co-developed the world’s first product-ready, lab-produced, recombinant snakebite antivenom that protects ...

While both are venomous elapids, the King cobra and common cobra exhibit distinct evolutionary paths. The King cobra, a ...

The largest of all the rattlesnakes, the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake inflicts a lethal venomous bite and warns intruders with its very loud buzzing tail rattle. The Nose-Horned Viper, which is ...

Snakebite envenoming is among the world's deadliest yet most overlooked tropical disease. The WHO has classified snakebite envenoming as one of 21 ...

“The school, which consists of a block of two buildings with three classrooms each, has become a symbol of government neglect and infrastructural decay. The roofs are leaking, the walls are crumbling, ...

Vipers launched from coils with smooth, explosive acceleration. If the first stab wasn’t perfect, they “walked” a fang out and reinserted it at a better angle before delivering venom. In the fastest ...