Encountering a snake in the wild can be startling, but knowing how to quickly identify a venomous one could be lifesaving.

King cobra and saw-scaled viper are two highly venomous snakes with distinctive traits. The king cobra is notable for its ...

As the weather gets warmer, snakes will begin to appear. In Louisiana, there are seven venomous snake species. What they are ...

A Wilmington, North Carolina, man has been released from the hospital after surviving a bite from a Gaboon viper, one of the most venomous snakes on the planet. The man was caring for the snake in ...

As the days grow longer and the weather warms, hikers across Nevada are ready to lace up their boots and hit the trails.

Sylt Island, located in the North Sea near the Germany-Denmark border, is part of an island chain “naturally void of snakes,” he wrote. But, since the 1970s, islanders have occasionally reported snake ...

A pill used to combat mercury and arsenic poisoning could be repurposed to tackle snakebites, trials have found.

They took a closer look at the snakes and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Ovophis zhaoermii, or the Guanyinshan mountain pit viper. An Ovophis zhaoermii, or Guanyinshan ...

Scientists found an elusive 2-foot-long predator with a “dangerous” bite and discovered a new species in Laos, a study said. Photo from P. Brakels via Grassby-Lewis, Brakels, Maury, Sitthivong ...