This study reveals an engineered eight-nanobody cocktail that protects against African elapid snake venoms, outperforming ...

Snakes can be scary because some are venomous, but they can also be really beautiful. Some snakes have bright red colours ...

Around 100,000 people die each year from snake bites, but this new broad-spectrum antivenom protects against 17 deadly ...

In some of the world’s hottest and driest places, there live a few snakes that look quite different from others– they have ...

Made up of five smaller townships, Snake Park is home to about 5,000 properties built under South Africa's Reconstruction and ...

Most people’s reaction to seeing a snake is a mix of surprise and a sudden urge to be somewhere else. While many snakes are quite content to move at a leisurely pace, a select few have turned speed ...

Colubrid snakes, such as the mangrove snake (Boiga dendrophila), which have fangs farther back in their mouths, lunged towards the prey from further away. With their jaws clamped over it, they'd make ...

America is synonymous with hulking engines, and the Viper's V10 is one of the biggest. With over eight liters of displacement ...

Snakebite envenoming is among the world's deadliest yet most overlooked tropical disease. The WHO has classified snakebite envenoming as one of 21 ...

Families and relatives of those injured or who perished in May 2024 when a five-storey development in George collapsed are 'spitting snakes' at claims that South African Police Service (SAPS) ...

Scientists have developed a nanobody-based antivenom that neutralizes toxins from most African cobras, mambas and the ...

Scientists have co-developed the world’s first product-ready, lab-produced, recombinant snakebite antivenom that protects against many of Africa’s most dangerous snakes and outperforms existing ...