Were Shakespeare alive today, I like to think that he would twig how wrong he once was about hedgehogs, adders and newts. Being a sagacious sort, he would probably be a member of London Wildlife Trust ...

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

High-speed cameras have been used to capture the biting mechanisms of different kinds of snakes, including vipers and the ...

Over 100 videos of venomous snake strikes reveal three different types of attacks, with some biting down several times "to ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Two individuals share their harrowing experiences with a Cape Cobra and a Puff Adder, shedding light on the dangers of snake ...

A 15-year-old boy from Graafwater was bitten by a puff adder on 18 October 2025 and was rushed to Clanwilliam Hospital in the ...