New broad-spectrum antivenom, made up of just eight nanobodies to counter venom from diverse sub-Saharan African snake ...

Nature's deadliest creatures employ distinct defense mechanisms. Venomous animals inject toxins through bites or stings, like cobras and jellyfish. Po ...

Medicine is not helpless. Snake bites can be neutralised with antivenom, but that is often not to hand in the remote parts of ...

A revolutionary new antivenom has proven effective against snakebites from 17 of the world's deadliest serpents. Scientists ...

S nake bites happen in the blink of an eye. Some can strike fleet-footed rodent prey in a flash of scales and fangs that ...

They found that venomous snakes use dramatically different strategies to deliver their deadly bites. Vipers and elapids ...

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas -- A venomous 6-foot snake is on the loose in Texas. The escaped snake is a West African Banded Cobra. Its owner realized it had escaped its enclosure at about 5 p.m. on Tuesday ...

Few actions in nature inspire more fear and fascination than snake bites. And the venomous reptiles have to move fast to sink ...