Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Different venoms attack the body differently. Neurotoxic venom directly attacks the nerves and prevents the brain from receiving ...

Scientists finally know how venomous snakes sink their teeth into prey thanks to a series of high-speed videos. In a new study, published Thursday (Oct. 23) in the Journal of Experimental Biology, ...

It turns out snakes don’t need a plane to fall from the sky. In a bewildering series of events, a Texas woman was injured after a hawk appeared to drop a snake on her before swooping down and ...

Researchers in Colombia have scanned the skins of aquatic snakes to figure out how scale sensilla, tiny sensor-like structures, could help them find and attack prey. Scale sensilla, which are ...

Three weeks after a Texas woman said a hawk dropped a squirming snake onto her arm – and then attacked her to retrieve its prey ‒ Peggy Jones says she still has nightmares. Jones, 64, said she was ...