The centre is home to about 150 of the world’s deadliest snakes, whose venom is regularly extracted through “milking”.

A bike ride at the Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve in San Diego earlier this month took a frightening turn when a mountain biker collided with a rattlesnake. Manuel Altamirano was biking on the ...

The fossilised remains of ammonites were given the name snakestones in England because they resemble coiled snakes turned to stone. Museum palaeontologist Dr Paul Taylor, who has an interest in fossil ...