Meet the world’s deadliest snake: the saw-scaled viper. Scientists believe that this viper is responsible for more human deaths than all other snakes combined. And while technically its venom isn’t ...

Venomous snakes kill tens of thousands of people every year, mostly in rural parts of Asia and Africa where medical care and ...

Snakes are one of the earth’s creatures you either love or hate. Some are fascinated with their behavior and movements, while others run in fear at the sight (or sound). Regardless of your opinion on ...

The World Health Organization estimates that as many as 5.4 million people are bitten by snakes each year. Snakebite injuries leave around 400,000 people permanently disabled or disfigured. Between 80 ...

A shipment of bricks that came in from Pakistan and arrived in Manchester, England, contained a stowaway saw-scaled viper—one of the deadliest snakes in the world. Officials from the Royal Society for ...

Once upon a time, the naturalist and television personality Roger Caras wrote a book called Dangerous to Man: Wild Animals; a Definitive Study of their Reputed Dangers to Man. Caras took a painstaking ...

Over 3,000 species of snakes slither across the globe, according to National Geographic. Of these species, approximately 600 are venomous, with around 7% being poisonous enough to kill or injure a ...

WEST BABYLON, Long Island (WABC) -- A snake owner was bitten by one of several venomous snakes he kept inside his West Babylon home Monday night. Richard Downing, 32, was handling the Egyptian ...