Let’s say you’re traipsing through the African bush when you come across a grove of trees. As you walk through it, something feels off. You look up at one of the trees and notice that a particular ...

Vibrant green snakes, masters of camouflage, inhabit diverse global ecosystems from rainforests to savannas. These ...

Scientists have developed a nanobody-based antivenom that neutralizes toxins from most African cobras, mambas and the rinkhals, which could offer safer, scalable protection beyond existing snakebite ...

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

Snake venom contains many proteins that damage the body, though key toxic sites often remain similar across species.

New broad-spectrum antivenom, made up of just eight nanobodies to counter venom from diverse sub-Saharan African snake species, shows success in mice.

An "extremely venomous" two-meter-long green mamba snake is on the loose in the Netherlands, police said Tuesday, warning residents to stay indoors and under no circumstances attempt to ensnare the ...