Getting bit by a eastern diamondback rattlesnake can be a potentially fatal encounter. Read here about a man who survived.

In a remote corner of India, the Irula tribe has preserved an extraordinary tradition. From a young age, children learn the dangerous yet crucial skill of extracting venom from some of the world’s ...

Chad Cross used a $10 snake-bite kit to extract enough deadly venom to enable him to go get help. Doctor says he would have died without using kit. Chad Cross was hunting for turkey in the woods in ...

A former corporal in the Nigerian Air Force and Laboratory Operational Manager at Liman Usman Global Ltd, Muhammad Usman, shares with IBRAHIM ADAM how scorpion venom is being transformed from a feared ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The country's biggest producer of snake venom is in Kentucky. The Kentucky Reptile Zoo in Red River Gorge has more than 1,700 snakes, LEX18 reported this week. Co-director ...

He feeds spitting cobras, handles puff udders, and helps black mambas reproduce. He also cleans a cage that hosts two 20-inch pythons. His biggest interest is in the ones with the sting of death; the ...

As many as 137,000 people die from snakebites every year. Venom from snakes can cause internal bleeding, attack the nervous system, and even stop the heart. Making anti-venom is an expensive ...

With around 58,000 human deaths from snakebites each year in the country, a lot more must be done to save lives Kamala Thiagarajan, Undark An Indian cobra found in the farmlands of Kanchipuram, India.

Imagine feeling like an elephant is sitting on your chest, you can't breathe, there's a sense of impending doom and the pain is so intense you want to die. You've just been stung by a tiny Irukandji ...