This is a close mimic of the coral snake, but the real version has a singular venom. Flickr user Joe Townsend When he returned home to France after a stay in Costa Rica in 1983, Jean-Pierre Rosso ...

In Brazil, a group of researchers from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) and the Butantan Institute have ...

Local climate can be used to predict the venom characteristics of a deadly snake that is widespread in India, helping ...

Schmidt reported a fever, violent nausea, vomiting, pain and bleeding from the gums, nose and bowels and a variety of other unpleasant side effects. A group of components at work in boomslang venom ...

HHMI researchers discover that protein related to snake venom toxin modulates receptors that are targeted by nicotine. Scientists have found that a protein resembling snake venom neurotoxin modulates ...