Why and When Do Snakes Bite? As is commonly known, snakes bite for two main reasons: to hunt and to defend. When snakes are on the offensive, they use their venom to immobilize and kill their prey.

Venomous snakes can strike their prey, or people, in a fraction of a second. But slowing down their bites with high-speed cameras reveals how techniques for delivering deadly venom differs among ...

The idea sounds ridiculous at first, like something pulled from a horror film or an internet myth that refuses to […] ...