Image via Shutterstock A Kentucky zoo director experienced a nightmare scenario after a highly venomous snake. He's fortunate ...

POWELL COUNTY, Ky. ( WKYT /Gray News) - A reptile zoo owner in Kentucky is recovering after being bitten on his hand by a ...

Researchers may have found the key to creating the ultimate snake antivenom, and all it took was someone getting bitten 200 ...

A man who injected himself with snake venom helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes.

Blood from a former construction and factory worker — and self-taught herpetologist — could hold the key to a universal ...

Scientists in the United States have created a new snake antivenom using the blood of a man who deliberately built up ...

Jim Harrison, co-director of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo, said he was bitten by a 'highly venomous' Jameson's mamba snake while ...

Californian autodidact herpetologist Tim Friede has spent the last two decades deliberately injecting himself with hundreds ...

The man was found to have undertaken "escalating doses" from 16 snake species so lethal they "would normally a kill a horse." ...

A man who has been injecting himself with snake venom for the past 18 years has now been used to create the most broadly ...

Tim Friede has been bitten by hundreds of snakes. And now, scientists are studying his blood to create a universal antivenom.

Snakes are ending hibernation to mate and bask under the summer sun. Michigan has one venomous snake. Here's how to identify it.