Advanced video techniques reveal exactly how snake bites work and show various snake species have evolved very different strategies.

It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick ...

Scientists have sunk their fangs into a panacea for snake bites. The new antivenom can counteract the bite of several deadly ...

In a first, scientists recorded high-speed footage from dozens of venomous snakes as they went in for the kill. Reading time 3 minutes If you’ve ever been morbidly curious about what it would look ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Venomous snakes strike faster than the eye can see — and now, scientists have the video to prove it. Authors of a recent study, which ...

Around 100,000 people die each year from snake bites, but this new broad-spectrum antivenom protects against 17 deadly ...

Vipers launched from coils with smooth, explosive acceleration. If the first stab wasn’t perfect, they “walked” a fang out and reinserted it at a better angle before delivering venom. In the fastest ...

For more than 60 million years, venomous snakes have slithered across the Earth. These ancient, chemical weapon-wielding reptiles owe their evolutionary success in part to the effectiveness of their ...

Snake venom contains many proteins that damage the body, though key toxic sites often remain similar across species.

Medicine is not helpless. Snake bites can be neutralised with antivenom, but that is often not to hand in the remote parts of the continent.