He feeds spitting cobras, handles puff udders, and helps black mambas reproduce. He also cleans a cage that hosts two 20-inch pythons. His biggest interest is in the ones with the sting of death; the ...

In a remote corner of India, the Irula tribe has preserved an extraordinary tradition. From a young age, children learn the dangerous yet crucial skill of extracting venom from some of the world’s ...

Chad Cross used a $10 snake-bite kit to extract enough deadly venom to enable him to go get help. Doctor says he would have died without using kit. Chad Cross was hunting for turkey in the woods in ...

As many as 137,000 people die from snakebites every year. Venom from snakes can cause internal bleeding, attack the nervous system, and even stop the heart. Making anti-venom is an expensive ...

Snake milking is frequently misunderstood, often perceived as a dangerous or cruel activity. In reality, it is a highly precise and carefully controlled scientific procedure. Trained herpetologists ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Gandhinagar, Feb 22 (IANS) The Gujarat government will soon make available an anti-venom produced exclusively from venom of snakes found within the state, in a move aimed at reducing ...

Gujarat’s most venomous snakes went under the digital hammer this week, as Dharampur’s Snake Research Institute (SRI) conducted an e-auction of venom from the state’s deadliest species to help fight ...