I try to nurture a sense of awe in the face of Australia’s alien (to me) natural world. But I miss the wet ferns in the Kerry ...

A recent study found that copperheads often strike in under 0.1 seconds, and their fangs can break when they bite.

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Scientists filmed 36 snake species to study their strike speed. They found vipers, elapids, and colubrids each use unique ...

To do this, they first immunized the camelids with venoms collected from 18 African snake species. Next, they extracted ...

Vipers launched from coils with smooth, explosive acceleration. If the first stab wasn’t perfect, they “walked” a fang out ...

Every year, venomous snakes kill more people worldwide than sharks, lions, and wolves combined—yet most of us barely give ...

It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick ...

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Mike Marino, a Hollywood prosthetics designer and Ms. Klum’s longtime Halloween collaborator, said her costume this year was inspired by the snakelike, stop-motion Medusa from the 1981 movie “Clash of ...