Our venom expert Dr Ronald Jenner explains how they work: ‘These are enzymes. They are a broad family of toxins that have all evolved to do different things, but they all interact in bad ways with the ...

Enzymes that commonly accompany these venoms ... and significant tissue damage have been observed in the victims. Death: The hemotoxic venom might give multi-organ failure through grave interior ...

A fourth kind of venom exists in sea snakes and is known as myotoxic. It leads to severe and instant muscular paralysis ...

Despite rattlesnakes possessing potent hemotoxic venom, their ambush tactics and slower speed pale in comparison to the king cobra’s advanced hunting tactics, neurotoxic venom, and resistance to ...