A Wilmington, North Carolina, man has been released from the hospital after surviving a bite from a Gaboon viper, one of the most venomous snakes on the planet. The man was caring for the snake in ...

The University of Florida is widely known for its annual investigation of shark bites around the world, but a new study by ...

Additionally, cottonmouths feature dark brown and black banding which can vary ... A common misconception about snake bites – ...

Scientists found an elusive 2-foot-long predator with a “dangerous” bite ... pit vipers are “highly secretive and elusive,” the study said. Researchers only caught one snake and tracked ...

In these areas, a snake bite is a matter of racing against ... the most lethal African venomous snakes like black mamba and Gaboon viper, which are among the fastest and most dangerous reptiles ...

A new University of Florida study examined 20 years of venomous snake bites and found that most victims waited too long to seek treatment. The study, which looked at 546 cases at one Florida ...