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 recent study found that copperheads often strike in under 0.1 seconds, and their fangs can break when they bite.

Advanced video techniques reveal exactly how snake bites work and show various snake species have evolved very different strategies.

Study recorded strikes up to 9.2 ft/s and measured fang motion and venom delivery. Copperheads cause about 90% of NC bites; ...

A venomous rinkhals snake left Mzansi creeped out and amused after a video showed it dramatically playing dead, earning ...

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 ...

For more than 60 million years, venomous snakes have slithered across the Earth. These ancient, chemical weapon-wielding reptiles owe their evolutionary success in part to the effectiveness of their ...