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 ...

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 centre is home to about 150 of the world’s deadliest snakes, whose venom is regularly extracted through “milking”. Surprising as it may seem, the lethal compounds in snake venom are being used to ...

Researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Wellcome ...

He previously explained that researchers hyperimmunised horses with snake venom to manufacture antivenom. “The hyperimmunisation takes about nine months. We draw blood from the horse ...