Woodrats weigh less than half a pound but can survive venomous rattlesnake bites that would hospitalize, or even kill, a full ...

A wave of fresh science is challenging a century-old treatment and offering hope to the people snakebites harm most—often far ...

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

There’s been speculation, but no solid proof. By Andrew Coletti Published Dec 1, 2025 9:00 AM EST Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

Sometimes remarkable discoveries can be found in unexpected places. That’s what happened when archeologists examined fossilized human poop and found the remains of an entire snake, including an intact ...

Stephen Mackessy, a biology professor at the University of Northern Colorado, holds a rattlesnake from the Yucatan in Mexico as its venom is extracted into a plastic beaker. For people in much of the ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – A Northern Watersnake in North Carolina made a feast of a comparatively large catfish in a social media video that has gone viral. The video was shot this summer near Asheville ...

Maddox Cochrane committed to play college football at Wisconsin back in April. He officially changed his mind earlier this week because of all of the uncertainty surrounding the program. The reason(s) ...

Meet scientist who let himself get bitten by venomous snakes more than 160 times that he has become immune to its venom. Tim Friede, an amateur scientist from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, claims that by ...