A popular Queensland snake catcher has shared the “freak” moment she was bitten by an eastern brown snake in her Sunshine ...

Some lizards have evolved to be resistant to the venom of snakes, entering into a sort of evolutionary arms race with their limbless cousins. A family of lizards known as varanids has evolved ...

New research could settle a long-standing controversy over the evolution of deadly snake fangs. In today's issue of the journal Nature an international team of scientists argue that different types of ...

The blue coral snake is native to South-East Asia Tom Charlton One of the most venomous snakes in the world – South East Asia's blue coral snake – could soon be the source of a new painkiller, ...

An average of four Queenslanders are being bitten by snakes every day, new data has revealed, with the surge caused in part ...

A researcher who says snake venom developed in a single evolutionary event between 60 and 80 million years ago has revealed why Australian snakes are so deadly. Dr Bryan Fry of the Australian Venom ...

A WOMAN, weeks away from giving birth, has left behind a three-year-old son after she and her unborn baby died from an apparent snake bite. Ms Martin, known as Nita, managed to call out to relatives ...

An enormous water python has devoured a metre-long fresh water crocodile following an epic duel that shocked onlookers at Lake Moondarra, near Mount Isa, on Sunday. And that's not uncommon, according ...

This is the moment villagers captured a male python and the huge 20ft-long female it was mating with - before chopping them up for a STIR FRY meal. Locals came across the pair while they were out ...

This week, I review Ellis Bar, a Southwestern restaurant that serves food like rattlesnake and fry bread. Real Southwestern-American fare is a rarity in New York (not fake-y Mexican, but actual ...

While researching sea snakes in the mining town of Weipa in Australia’s remote Cape York Peninsula, a team of biologists chanced upon a black and white snake that’s new to science. The venomous snake, ...