Coffee–especially ‘fancy’ coffee–is always a pleasure. Still, the excitement rises a notch or two when a casual cafe ...

Venomous snakes produce some of the world’s deadliest substances, so they have to be pretty careful about how they use it.

"Irwin's wolf snake" can grow to more than three feet in length, report the researchers who described the new species.

Conservationists have discovered a previously unknown species of snake, slithering around one of Earth’s most unique ...

Researchers R. S. Naveen and S. R. Chandramouli of the Pondicherry University, Zeeshan A. Mirza of the Max Planck Institute ...

The dangers of drinking snake venom and why to avoid it.

A man in New Jersey has died from a meat allergy that people can develop after being bitten by certain tick species.

Native to the rivers and freshwater creeks of eastern Australia, its venom is the lesser-known feature that sets the platypus ...