A healthy respect for snakes is good — after all, an estimated 5.4 million people globally are bitten by snakes each year!

We may be more likely to see snakes this time of year, as the weather warms. Use this information to make encounters less scary.

Humans have been fascinated with snakes since the beginning of time. Snakes feature in stories throughout the ages, whether in history, world mythologies, and even pop culture and today’s media. Let’s ...

The centre is home to about 150 of the world’s deadliest snakes, whose venom is regularly extracted through “milking”.

Even these species are inclined to avoid humans and only strike when threatened. Most snakes are entirely harmless, and they are all crucial predators that help maintain food webs. Snakes smell by ...

Adapting a YA slasher novel, director Eli Craig tries to pass off a lack of originality as "meta." The result is neither ...

Even though some of the rivers house more deadly species, most other rivers have non-venomous harmless snakes that serve crucial functions in their respective ecosystems. Whether you’re an avid ...

For big, scary snakes, the eastern diamondback rattler is one of your better contenders. It’s often considered the most dangerous venomous snake in North America. Guinness World Records doesn ...