Snakes are used in various investigations of the effects of their venom on human physiology. Blood sampling is frequently an important part of these investigations. The heart is the most commonly ...

The small mottled brown snake coiled up in a box doesn’t look especially scary, compared with some of the bigger specimens that are eyeing me through their glass enclosures. But such saw-scaled ...

An curved arrow pointing right. There's a long list of contenders for the strangest thing Gunnar Garfors has eaten while traveling to every country in the world. But a king cobra snake in its ...