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

That’s because in a race of reflexes, the snake usually wins. For a mouse or human, it takes less than half a second to ...

DTU researchers are behind a potentially groundbreaking antivenom that could revolutionize the treatment of venomous ...

Scientists have uncovered a startling split in the venom of Australia’s Eastern Brown Snake. In the south, bites cause rock-solid blood clots, while in the north, they trigger flimsy clots that ...

For more than 60 million years, venomous snakes have slithered across the Earth. These ancient, chemical weapon-wielding ...

A scarlet snake was documented on Sanibel Island for the first time in September. This sighting follows the first appearance of a scarlet kingsnake on the island since the 1970s. Both the scarlet ...

A Tennessee hiker died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake he picked up. Timber rattlesnakes, copperheads, and massasauga rattlesnakes are Ohio's three venomous snake species. While venomous, ...

Both the scarlet snake and scarlet kingsnake are non-venomous look-alikes of the venomous eastern coral snake. There was some snake news recently in Southwest Florida and it had nothing to do with the ...