Snakes are used in various investigations of the effects of their venom on human physiology. Blood sampling is frequently an important part of these investigations. The heart is the most commonly ...

Dice snakes were seen to lie still and fake their own deaths, while also smearing themselves in feces and musk, and bleeding ...

The centre is home to about 150 of the world’s deadliest snakes, whose venom is regularly extracted through “milking”.

Two groups of venomous snakes are particularly well known: vipers and elapids. Broadly speaking, the venoms in these two groups do different things to a bite victim. Vipers have venoms that are ...

The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Health Department has sought to allay public fears regarding a potential shortage of snake antivenom ...

We are terrified that that means they all have snakes inside. The drop is swirled around. This mixes the venom in, but it does also expose the blood to oxygen, which means that what we see next ...

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