A recent study found that copperheads often strike in under 0.1 seconds, and their fangs can break when they bite.

In a first, scientists recorded high-speed footage from dozens of venomous snakes as they went in for the kill.

They found that venomous snakes use dramatically different strategies to deliver their deadly bites. Vipers and elapids ...

Colubrid snakes, such as the mangrove snake ( Boiga dendrophila ), which have fangs farther back in their mouths, lunged ...

Antivenom, also known as antivenin, is an umbrella term for purified antibodies which work against venoms or parts of venoms.

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

Over 5 million people are bitten by snakes every year, according to the World Health Organization. Many effective antivenoms ...

Dozens of species of snakes have been captured on high-speed cameras, with researchers finding vipers were the fastest, but an Australian snake was not far behind.

For more than 60 million years, venomous snakes have slithered across the Earth. These ancient, chemical weapon-wielding ...

A contestant was bitten by a venomous snake on the beach in Fiji, prompting medical personnel to pull him from the game during the Oct. 8 episode.