In work that has not yet been peer-reviewed, researchers present evidence that microbes can and do live inside the venom glands of several dangerous species. It remains unclear whether they’re to ...

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 ...

Discover what snake venom does, why some snake species have incredibly potent venom ... Boomslangs are part of Colubridae and are a rear-fanged species, meaning their venom delivering teeth are at the ...

This involves gently squeezing a snake's venom glands while it bites onto a collection container ... but may be related to the process of fang replacement. Similar to human adult teeth, death adders ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Bio-Ken Snake farm manager Boniface Momanyi extracts Venom from a green mamba. (Jenipher Wachie, Standard) He feeds spitting cobras, handles puff udders, and helps black mambas reproduce.