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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have captured high-speed video of venomous snake strikes, including this dramatic footage of a copperhead. Authors of the study, which was published last week in the Journal of Experimental ...

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

Scientists have decoded venomous snake strikes using advanced 3D video. The study analysed 36 species, revealing varied ...

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