Jesse Rothacker with Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary has few scaly friends. One of them is an adult Gila Monster named Chester with a venomous bite. But don’t let the word ‘monster’ in the name ...

Venomous reptiles may provide a good source for new drugs for human diseases, researchers in Liverpool say. Venom has already been used to create drugs, but the chemicals in it are often too deadly ...

Venomous snakes bite millions of people every year, most of them in India. Ravikar Ralph, a physician at the Christian Medical College Vellore hospital in India, is one of the people who treats them.

Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times with the venom of some of the world’s deadliest snakes, including cobras, mambas and ...

Nowadays, artificial intelligence is famous for its generative capabilities that simplify content creation, automation, and other tasks, but a new study tasked the technology to design new proteins ...

Neville Wolmarans knows the dangers of snake venom all too well. He vividly recalls his first black mamba bite, in 1971. With ...

Cassandra Willyard is a science journalist based in Madison, Wis. She covers public health, medicine, and more. Inside a two-story brick building, not far from the orchids and iguanas of the botanical ...

While walking through the woods, humans instinctively scan the forest floor for signs of danger. A rustling of leaves or an unexpected shape in the periphery causes the heart to race and sends shivers ...

Many persons had resorted to seeking alternative means of treatment because of the unavailability of free anti-snake venom, ...

The Gombe State Ministry of Health has reported 54 deaths from 1,591 snakebite cases in 2025, citing a lack of free ...

Inside a two-story brick building, not far from the orchids and iguanas of the botanical garden in Medellín, Colombia, wildlife technician Jorge Asprilla demonstrates how to extract venom from a snake ...