Slow lorises (above) are the only venomous primates. They have become an internet sensation thanks to videos of them raising their arms to be 'tickled'. However, a slow loris with its arms raised is ...

Highly venomous olive sea snakes may “attack” scuba divers as part of misplaced courtship behaviors, according to a new study. Divers regularly report sea snake interactions involving chasing ...

WHATEVER may be thought of their reputed powers in other directions, there is no question of the peculiar fascination exercised by snakes upon the popular imagination, so that a translation of a ...

In India, venomous snakes kill some 50,000 people a year. In the U.S., although 7,000 or 8,000 people are bitten by venomous snakes every year, about five of them die.

A widely shared post on social media makes the claim that venomous snakes tend to move on the surface of water, while common water snakes dive beneath the surface. The post alleges that this ...

What's it like to get bit by a venomous snake? "It's like a bee sting times a thousand," Tim Friede says. Tim would know. Over the past few decades, he's let himself be bitten over 200 times by ...