If you're an air-breathing sea snake, life in the tropical waters of the ocean is fraught with challenges. For instance, sea snakes regularly shed their skin like any other snake — but the ...

olive-headed sea snake, and others. Despite their potent venom, human encounters are rare, and these snakes play significant roles in their marine ecosystems. Notable species include the highly ...

Sea snakes have relatively small fangs and venom is not always injected with a bite. With bites often occurring in remote places, such as out at sea or in small fishing villages, it’s clear why ...

Like many other nudibranchs, the sea swallow harnesses the venom of its prey. But this small slug will also take on colonies of floating cnidarians. This includes the Portuguese man-o-war, an open-sea ...

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

The live three-foot yellow-bellied sea snake that washed ashore at Honoli’i Beach is "potentially lethal to humans" Shyla Watson is a digital news editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

On this trip I was with producer David Marks and cameraman Robin Cox to film sea snake hunting ... if you do get bitten and they inject their venom you are dead in 20 minutes!

They must literally chew on their victim to inject their venom fully, so most bites to ... snakes are relatives of the cobra, mamba, and sea snake. They live in the wooded, sandy, and marshy ...

A snake that mainly eats birds, its strong venom makes it particularly effective ... but was separated by a rise in sea levels about 10,000 years ago. The snakes that found themselves on the ...