They found that venomous snakes use dramatically different strategies to deliver their deadly bites. Vipers and elapids ...

In a first, scientists recorded high-speed footage from dozens of venomous snakes as they went in for the kill.

S nake bites happen in the blink of an eye. Some can strike fleet-footed rodent prey in a flash of scales and fangs that ...

All venomous snake strikes look alike, but different species have evolved distinct fangs, speeds, and techniques. Watch how ...

Colubrid snakes, such as the mangrove snake ( Boiga dendrophila ), which have fangs farther back in their mouths, lunged ...

Vipers have the fastest strikes, but snakes from other families can give some slower vipers stiff competition.

That’s because in a race of reflexes, the snake usually wins. For a mouse or human, it takes less than half a second to ...

For more than 60 million years, venomous snakes have slithered across the Earth. These ancient, chemical weapon-wielding ...

Few actions in nature inspire more fear and fascination than snake bites. And the venomous reptiles have to move fast to sink ...

Different snakes put their own spin on striking their prey. Scientists captured the powerful attacks on camera ...

A new study shows how different snake species have evolved very different strategies to deliver their deadly bites.