The Gaboon viper is the heaviest venomous snake in Africa, stretching up to six feet and weighing as much as 25 pounds. With a broad, leaf-shaped head and patterns that look like dead leaves and ...

Snake Island, which is officially known as Ilha da Queimada Grande, is one of those places that remains hidden off the coast of Brazil, and it’s not the typical island paradise. There are no ...

Researchers have published the first example of a synthetic sugar detection test for snake venom, offering a new route to rapid diagnosis and better antivenoms. Every five minutes, 50 people are ...

A Sunshine Coast-based snake catcher has reported the death of a red-bellied black snake to the Queensland Environment Department. The snake catcher had been called to a property to relocate the ...

The snakes, which included 44 Indonesian pit vipers, were “concealed in checked-in baggage”, Mumbai Customs said in a statement late on June 1. “An Indian national arriving from Thailand was ...

SINGAPORE: The family of a teenage girl who fell victim to Ian Fang’s sexual offences has expressed dissatisfaction with the former actor’s sentence of a 40-month prison term, which does not ...

The primates were found dead, but the snakes were still alive and were later sent to their country of origin.

Snakes are typically regarded as land-dwelling creatures. But in the forests of southern Asia, a remarkable lineage has taken ...

Improving sleep, easing aches and pains, soothing issues like restless leg syndrome and lessening menopause symptoms? Magnesium supplements can seemingly do it all. This wonder nutrient is ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that India will “force the snake of terrorism out of its hole and crush it” if it raises its head again. Addressing a public gathering at Vikramganj in ...