Scientists filmed 36 snake species to study their strike speed. They found vipers, elapids, and colubrids each use unique ...

Vipers have the fastest strikes, but snakes from other families can give some slower vipers stiff competition.

Every year, venomous snakes kill more people worldwide than sharks, lions, and wolves combined—yet most of us barely give ...

It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick ...

Colubrid snakes, such as the mangrove snake ( Boiga dendrophila ), which have fangs farther back in their mouths, lunged ...

WESTLAND — With a frightening array of creepy, crawly critters, Great Lakes Serpentarium will fittingly open its doors with a ...

In a first, scientists recorded high-speed footage from dozens of venomous snakes as they went in for the kill.

That’s because in a race of reflexes, the snake usually wins. For a mouse or human, it takes less than half a second to ...

Few actions in nature inspire more fear and fascination than snake bites. And the venomous reptiles have to move fast to sink ...