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 ...

An article published by the researchers of the Biodiversity Unit at the University of Turku, Finland, highlights how amateur venom-extraction business is threatening scorpion species. Sustainably ...

Jim Harrison has lost fingers, gone into a coma and had his heart stop four times – all while doing his job. As a professional venom extractor, Harrison spends his days wrangling the world's deadliest ...

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 ...

With around 58,000 human deaths from snakebites each year in the country, a lot more must be done to save lives Kamala Thiagarajan, Undark An Indian cobra found in the farmlands of Kanchipuram, India.

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Researchers at the University of South Florida are uncovering new clues about how animals evolve by studying rattlesnake venom—and what they've found could help us better protect wildlife in a world ...

Sustainably produced scorpion venoms are important, for example, in the pharmacological industry. However, in the recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of people involved in ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Bio-Ken Snake farm manager Boniface Momanyi extracts Venom from a green mamba. (Jenipher ...

This means that the risk of becoming extinct has increased. With scorpions, the pressure to overharvest populations for venom-extraction and exotic pet trade threatens especially species with a small ...