Dr Surajit Giri faced a moment that would shape the rest of his career. A woman bitten by a snake was rushed into emergency ...

The Nihon “mamushi,” or Japanese pit viper, is a fairly small snake ... tiger keelback. Researchers there study the ecology of snakes and collect their venom to produce serums for snakebites.

A man who injected himself with snake venom helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes.

Jim Harrison, co-director of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo, said he was bitten by a 'highly venomous' Jameson's mamba snake while ...

The man was found to have undertaken "escalating doses" from 16 snake species so lethal they "would normally a kill a horse." ...

There are 21 snake species that are native to Pennsylvania, and three of them are venomous. The copperhead reaches an average ...

The timber rattlesnake is critically endangered, both regionally and nationally, after humans hunted them for decades and due to habitat loss. The snakes are incredibly rare in New Hampshire, likely ...

US-based and self-described snake expert Tim Friede first started collecting deadly snake species in 2000, and then began self-administering their venom in diluted and escalating doses in hopes to ...

Glanville's diamond was Tim Friede, a self-taught snake expert based in California who exposed himself to the venom of snakes over the course of nearly 18 years, effectively gaining immunity to ...