The platypus is one of nature’s strangest mammals. This egg-laying animal sweats milk, hunts by sensing electrical signals, carries venomous spurs, and even glows under ultraviolet light. Discover the ...

A deadly spitting cobra was among several venomous snakes discovered in a home. According to the City of Wichita Falls Animal Control in Texas, the cache of reptiles was discovered after officers ...

A study shows that rattlesnake rattling works as a powerful warning signal that scares animals and prevents dangerous encounters in the wild.

Julian Hernandez was bitten by the snake on Feb. 1 while mountain biking at Quail Hill Trailhead. He went into a coma and didn't regain consciousness.

Authorities in Texas were called recently to deal with an unusual exotic animal that's illegal to keep in the city: a Siamese spitting cobra.

Researchers around the world are attempting to create a safer and more effective treatment in hopes of saving hundreds of thousands of lives ...

Snakes bite five million people each year, killing some 125,000 and disfiguring or blinding three times as many. Antivenoms ...

Spring breakers on the Texas Gulf Coast are getting an unexpected guest star this week: electric-blue sea slugs nicknamed “blue dragons.” The ornate, inch-long nudibranchs have been washing up on ...

An Orange County man died after being bitten by a rattlesnake while mountain biking at an Irvine trail. The coroner determined that Costa Mesa resident Julian Hernandez, 25, died from an animal bite.

This is the venomous snake folks are most likely to see while out and about in Pa. The timber rattlesnake likes to hang out near cover and rugged terrain — rock ...