The centre is home to about 150 of the world’s deadliest snakes, whose venom is regularly extracted through “milking”.

When I climbed in the driver’s seat I found myself face to face with a snake coiled around the steering wheel. Of course, he knew how terrified I am of snakes, so he and his buddies almost fell ...

The small mottled brown snake coiled up in a box doesn’t look especially scary, compared with some of the bigger specimens that are eyeing me through their glass enclosures. But such saw-scaled ...

Snakes, for some, are the stuff of nightmares. For others, they’re beloved pets or fascinating research subjects. They’re classified in the suborder Serpentes and are related to lizards and other ...

Whether you’re walking on a park trail or hiking in the woods, it’s exciting to see a snake in the wild. It could be a small one slithering through a pile of leaves on its way back to its hole. Or ...