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 ...

When two employees at the East Bay Vivarium in Berkeley, California, pulled a baby snake from the incubator seven months ago, ...

Snakes become very active May through September. We spoke to a wildlife expert and doctor about what you should know if you ...

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

It eats copperheads, the only venomous snakes likely to be seen in central North Carolina and the Triangle. Its population (most likely) continues to decline. More on that later.

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

Tim Friede describes himself as an “autodidact herpetologist and venom expert”. He deliberately immunised himself with increasing doses of a number of snake venoms over an 18-year period ...

A “hyper immune” man has injected himself with the venom from 16 different species of snake to help create an anti-venom “cocktail” that treats multiple different kinds of snake bites.

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 ...

Up until that point, antivenom had only been made by injecting small doses of snake venom into animals, such as horses. As the animal then produces antibodies to fight the poison, researchers ...

Tom Friede slowly increased the amount of venom he was exposed to over a 18-year period to try to build up tolerance. Credit: AP A man in Wisconsin has helped create a groundbreaking snake ...

A WACKY scientist has allowed the world's deadliest snakes to bite him over 200 times to help create an "unparalleled" anti-venom. Tim Friede has been injected by snake toxins over 850 times ...