Here's what lurked in a Boca Raton apartment: a red-spitting cobra, a puff adder, a uracoan rattlesnake, two false cobras and a small alligator. State wildlife officers have seized the reptiles from ...

Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking new snakebite treatment to prevent the devastating tissue damage caused by African spitting cobra venom. Spitting cobra venom is incredibly potent and ...

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine announced that a drug called varespladib could be repurposed to treat spitting cobra bites. Standard antivenom treatments are ineffective at handling the ...

A terrified neighbor spotted it last week -- but it turns out it was secretly on the loose a lot longer than that, per authorities. A TikTok star snake wrangler is in hot water in North Carolina after ...

On average, snakes bite 1.8 million people worldwide each year, and 138,000 of those are fatal. Researchers have now found a new treatment for at least cobra bites — a common blood thinner called ...