If you’re walking through the flat desert of Phelan, California, and you’re bitten by a Southern Pacific rattlesnake, you will start to bleed badly. The snake’s venom is loaded with proteins that ...

A breakthrough study at The University of Queensland has discovered a hidden dangerous feature in the Black Mamba one of the most venomous snakes in the world. Professor Bryan Fry from UQ's School of ...

For millennia, humans have looked to the sea to find medicine. Today, medical treatments that come from the ocean have been clinically approved for pain, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease, and over a ...

QUT PhD researcher Lauren Ashwood has studied sea anemones’ venom makeup extensively, in particular, Telmatactis stephensoni a reef-based sea anemone that can grow from 8 to 10 cm. Ms Ashwood found ...

The bite of a poisonous snake, scorpion or other venomous creature could very well kill you, but it also might be able to heal certain medical conditions like cancer, diabetes and heart failure.

Bryan G. Fry’s search for unusual venomous creatures has taken him to remote corners of the world, from polar Norway to Antarctica and many places in between. He’s milked venom from more than 20,000 ...

In 2001, after working up to it for years, Tim Friede finally allowed himself to be bitten by a snake. He started with venomous cobras because they're dangerous — and because they're what he had on ...

Cone snails can rapidly switch between venoms depending on whether they are hunting or defending themselves, a study has found. Cone snails are a species of predatory sea snail with high levels of ...