With the holiday season around the corner, the coastal city of Durban in South Africa is gearing up for its annual influx of ...

A harrowing video shows a woman speaking calmly to a massive, venomous Mozambique Spitting Cobra that was looking through her ...

Durban - The world's most dangerous snake went swimming in Durban. In a video shared by Arrive Alive, the reptile was spotted ...

Traditionally, scientists produce antivenoms by injecting small doses of snake venom into animals, usually horses or sheep, ...

Averaging lengths of two to three metres, the black mamba is Africa’s largest venomous snake. It is an apex predator, feeding ...

South Africans reacted to a viral video of a man handling a black mamba, sparking debate on risky snake encounters and the dangers of playing with venomous reptiles.

Mohammed Hassan, whose wife Luli Hassan died from a snakebite, at his home in Haroresa Village, Tana River County on November ...

Africa's Senegal coucal, a ground-dwelling bird, expertly hunts snakes, its primary prey. While snakes rely on venom or ...

The dangerousness of a snake species can be measured in multiple ways. Here is a look at the deadliest snakes based on the toxicity of their venom.

The coucal kills snakes by battering them against the ground or a branch.

Most people’s reaction to seeing a snake is a mix of surprise and a sudden urge to be somewhere else. While many snakes are quite content to move at a leisurely pace, a select few have turned speed ...

Juan Calvete, director of the Evolutionary and Translational Venomics Laboratory at the Biomedicine Institute of Valencia ...