It sounds like the plot of a pulp adventure novel: a man lets himself be bitten by some of the most lethal snakes on Earth-hundreds of times over two decades-not for spectacle, but to turn his own ...

Snakebite envenoming kills over 100,000 people each year and leaves hundreds of thousands more with permanent disabilities.

So Dilophosaurus is no longer believed to have been venomous; but what about other dinosaurs?  In 2009, a small, feathered carnivore from Cretaceous China called Sinornithosaurus was also speculated ...

Dusk starts to settle across the landscape. The dirt trail, lit by the last licks of sunlight, winds through the trees. The sound of your shuffling footfalls fills the quiet. Suddenly, you stop.

Death cap mushrooms are responsible for the majority of the world's mushroom-related deaths. California Officials say 21 ...

Meet the spitting cobras – venomous snakes capable of projecting venom with remarkable accuracy to deter threats.

Tomatoes were reviled for centuries—so how did we come to embrace them? This small New Jersey town claims to have played a major role. Once called the "poison apple," tomatoes were thought to be ...