Snakes have adapted to nearly every continent on Earth, thriving in a range of habitats, from steaming rainforests to arid ...

For nearly two decades, an American mechanic turned self-taught snake expert has done something that sounds suicidal at first ...

Snakebites affect millions of people each year, and tens of thousands of deaths are attributed to venomous encounters ...

For some people, their fear of snakes is biblical. But these reptiles are intriguing, specialized creatures worthy of study. For example, when a poisonous snake bites a rat, the complex soup of ...

A species of snake has been noted biting and injecting venom into humans after the snake is dead. Getty Images/iStock Photo As darkness descended on a man’s chicken coops in Sivasagar, India, he ...

A hiker was killed by a rattlesnake after he made the mistake of picking up the venomous reptile. The unidentified male hiker, who was in Tennessee’s Savage Gulf State Park on Aug. 8, picked up what ...

WASHINGTON — A hiker at a Tennessee state park has died after he was bitten by a venomous snake, according to park officials. The man, who was not identified publicly, was hiking at the Savage Gulf ...