A raised hood may look familiar, but science reveals King cobras and common cobras differ sharply in venom, behaviour, and human risk, shaping how danger and survival truly compare.

From village rooftops to forest releases, rescuers in India’s Western Ghats race to safely handle king cobras, revealing how ...

In India, snakebites cause more deaths than all other forms of human-wildlife conflict combined, with some 40,000 to 60,000 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Scientists recently split the king cobra into four separate ...

The king cobra occupies a singular position in the natural world-one defined not just by its biology but also by an unlikely ...

King cobras are the heavyweight champions of the snake world. These are the largest and longest of any other venomous snake on Earth. This is what makes the king cobra so infamous among snake species, ...