He was on holiday, but didn’t hesitate for a moment to go help when a veld fire spread in the area, says Sidney Millar, from Joburg. But then a snake bit ...

Saharan Africa, over 300,000 people are envenomed each year, leading to over 7,000 deaths and almost twice as many ...

In 2002, a former math and science teacher and prison guard named John Darwin paddled a kayak into the North Sea from his ...

The findings suggest these ghost elephants survived Angola’s war by never leaving—adapting instead by becoming invisible. “I ...

A snake expert warned that snakes can live in your home for years undetected and shared four important signs to watch out for after a singer suffered from a bite.

While hiking in the Eastern Cape, a woman encountered a stunning puff adder, capturing its rare movement on video, stunning viewers with its beauty and danger.

Snakebite can turn a quiet night or routine farm visit into a brutal race against time. From rural Gombe to Abuja, victims often survive the venom only to face a deadlier threat: empty hospital ...

Ifunanya Nwangene died in hospital after being bitten in her Abuja home, raising questions about the availability of effective antivenoms ...

A surfer was bitten by a shark that broke his board in Northern California this week, in the state's first shark incident of the year. "It was like being hit by a car," Tommy Civik told Bay City News, ...

A California surfer was bitten by a shark Tuesday, suffering gruesome “puncture wounds,” in the first such attack in the state this year, according to the Coast Guard. Tommy Civik, 26, was chewed up ...