The deadly caterpillars – within the South American genus called Lonomia – have a snakelike venom that interferes with blood clotting. Others have venoms that cause chronic, lifelong inflammatory ...

Cobras are among the world's most venomous and lethal snakes, featuring species like the Indian Cobra, King Cobra, and ...

Venom co-creator Todd McFarlane is mostly fine with the Tom Hardy-led Marvel movies starring the character, although he does ...

Venom began as one of Spider-Man's most ruthless villains and has fought nearly everyone in the Marvel Universe, from street level to cosmic. Script by TJ Pistilli, video edited by Tim McDonald.

Update (May 31): The paper described in this article was published May 23 in Microbiology Spectrum. For years, researchers have been looking to animal venoms for the next generation of antibiotics.

Can a poisonous frog become victim to its own toxins? In this edition of The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry, Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry are inspired by this question from a listener ...

His work has not stopped with bug spray; King’s lab at The University of Queensland contains the most extensive collection of venoms in the world, with samples from more than 600 species of ...

Venom is thought to have evolved independently at least 100 times. Today there are thousands of venomous animals thriving around the world. Over time their venoms have evolved to do specific jobs in ...

"Will we get to the stage where we'll be taking things from their venoms that are useful? Definitely," says Andrew Walker, an evolutionary biologist and biochemist at the University of Queensland ...

Historically, scientists have generated antivenoms by immunizing large animals, such as horses, sheep, llamas, and camels, with sublethal doses of snake venoms, isolating the serum from the blood, and ...