The Irula tribe in southern India has a long-standing tradition of safely extracting venom from some of the world’s deadliest snakes. This practice is essential for the production of life-saving ...

Steve Ludwin has been injecting himself with potent snake venom for decades. For the last 30 years, Steve Ludwin has carried out his controversial practice of collecting venom and injecting himself ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The inland or western taipan, Oxyuranus microlepidotus, is the most ...

The King Cobra, the largest venomous snake in the world, is renowned for its length, agility, and potent neurotoxic venom. On the other hand, the Gila Monster, a southwestern United States native ...

The death adder with a rare mutation was spotted during a venom milking programme at the Australian Reptile Park. “The Australian Reptile Park has no record of a three-fanged snake in the ...

Bio-Ken Snake farm manager Boniface Momanyi extracts Venom from a green mamba. (Jenipher Wachie, Standard) He feeds spitting cobras, handles puff udders, and helps black mambas reproduce.

The Egyptian cobra, known for its ancient Egyptian iconography, is a venomous snake measuring up to 2.4 meters. Found in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, it displays a defensive hood when ...

According to Atsushi Sakai, chief researcher at the center, the snake’s hemolytic venom destroys cells in veins and causes continuous bleeding. Bite victims can die of acute kidney failure.