Inland Taipan: The World's Most Toxic Serpent Picture the inland taipan coiled in the cracked earth of central Australia, ...

Venom is one of nature’s most effective (and fascinating) survival tools. Across the world, a wide range of animals have ...

Reviews are out for Tom Hardy’s Venom: The Last Dance and many critics are not impressed. The character of Venom exists in Spider-Man’s universe, which explains why the film is being produced and ...

The mystery of the mock viper—a unique species of snake that mimics other highly venomous species—has finally been solved by scientists. The mock viper, native to Asia, is only mildly venomous itself, ...

King cobras are the heavyweight champions of the snake world. These are the largest and longest of any other venomous snake on Earth. This is what makes the king cobra so infamous among snake species, ...

Saw-scaled vipers may be small, but they pack a nasty venomous punch. This one, Echis carinatus sochureki, was used in a study on snake venom. When a saw-scaled viper sinks its fangs into a person, it ...

The beauty of modern medicine is that it is often derived from the most unexpected places. Here’s how a snake and a hornet venom could help us save lives. Venom is a specialized secretion used by ...

Mock vipers not only look like tree-dwelling vipers but also act like them. Intriguingly, they have a fake ‘fang’ in the front of their mouth, which befools a predator into thinking that they possess ...