In India, snakebites cause more deaths than all other forms of human-wildlife conflict combined, with some 40,000 to 60,000 ...

From village rooftops to forest releases, rescuers in India’s Western Ghats race to safely handle king cobras, revealing how ...

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India, being one of the countries with a very rich biodiversity, houses several species of venomous snakes. The "Big Four" snakes are said to be the most dangerous ones not due to their size but due ...

In and around the streams of northeastern India, a new species of snake was discovered. Photo by J.C. Lalmuanawma via Muansanga et al (2025) Taprobanica From sharp-toothed sharks to spiders a bit too ...

A species of snake has been noted biting and injecting venom into humans after the snake is dead. Getty Images/iStock Photo As darkness descended on a man’s chicken coops in Sivasagar, India, he ...

The banded krait is among India’s most venomous snakes and is primarily nocturnal, which makes sightings during night patrols possible, though still relatively uncommon.

Fossils unearthed in Gujarat, India, reveal an exceptionally large snake from the Eocene era, approximately 47 million years ...

Most of the snakes were nonvenomous or not dangerous to humans, customs officials at Mumbai airport said Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

The meal was served at a government school in Northeastern India on Friday, April 25, according to authorities Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...