Things can get complicated when we refer to “brown snakes.” Brown snakes can mean snakes that are colored brown. However, ...

The pain was excruciating when a venomous snake bit Grady Kornelson in 2018 in south-central Kansas. “On a scale of one to 10, it was a nine,” he told the Hutchinson News. Kornelson received five ...

A man in eastern China suffered a near-fatal snakebite last week when he tried to catch a pit viper to make "snake wine." The 63-year-old, identified by his last name Yu, underwent several hours of ...

The man's identity or place of residence was not disclosed. He remains in serious condition at VCU Medical Center, hospital officials said, according to WTVR News. Virginia State Police (VSP) jumped ...

Last week, I answered a question about coral snakes. In this column, I discuss the largest group of venomous snakes found in the Southeast — pit vipers. The Southeast is home to copperheads, ...

“They are the ones that have to be able to strike as quickly as possible,” says Alistair Evans, a zoologist at Monash University in Melbourne. It typically takes mammals between 60 to 400 milliseconds ...

"In 19 years, I've never seen anything like this," a North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper said Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work ...

University of Sao Paulo researcher Marcio Martins holds one snake while watching another, a deadly venomous snake living only on Queimada Grande Island, Atlantic ...