This is a close mimic of the coral snake, but the real version has a singular venom. Flickr user Joe Townsend When he returned home to France after a stay in Costa Rica in 1983, Jean-Pierre Rosso ...

Vipers and cobras inject their venom through hollow teeth. In other groups of snakes, the teeth can be solid or have a deep groove that acts as a channel for venom. The shape of the fangs varies ...

Going after blood vessels While shark bites might get most of the attention as summer heats up, it’s snake bites that cause considerably more trouble and are more common. The World Health ...

Mongooses have a mutated receptor for acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter in the brain, which prevents snake venom from attaching to the receptor and causing harm ...

Snake venom can be remarkably diverse in composition and potency, not only between one species and another but also within ...

Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) is found across the Indian subcontinent and is responsible for over 40% of snake bite-related deaths in India each year. Its venom is extremely variable ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The venom characteristics of Russell's viper, a snake responsible for a significant number of snakebite deaths in India, can be predicted using local climate ...

As the natural prey of rattlesnakes, woodrats have also evolved resistance to snake venom: they can survive 500 to 1,000 times the amount that would kill a standard lab mouse. This resistance ...

She said that she killed the snake because she was afraid that it would hurt one of the children. Despite already starting to feel nauseous and dizzy from the venom, she got on her bike and rode ...

Antivenom serums to combat snake poisoning have been produced for over a hundred years. A sublethal dose of venom is injected into large animals such as horses. The animal's immune system then ...