When Cassy Richardson fumbled a bit of rubbish near her bin last Easter, she didn't think a whole lot of it. That is until two fangs drove deep into her skin as she reached towards the bottom of ...

Leonardo DiCaprio is a snake. A newly discovered species of a toothy snake in the Western Himalayas has been named in the actor’s honor, according to an “ongoing study” published in the ...

Laura is an editor and staff writer at IFLScience. She obtained her Master's in Experimental Neuroscience from Imperial College London.

Snakes are one of the earth’s creatures you either love or hate. Some are fascinated with their behavior and movements, while others run in fear at the sight (or sound). Regardless of your opinion on ...

Named ‘Anguiculus dicaprioi’ or DiCaprio’s Himalayan snake, the new species was discovered by the team of researchers from India, Germany and United Kingdom in 2020 A new snake species ...

A Russell's Viper - one of the most venomous snakes in the world - bit a man in Bihar's Bhagalpur. What he did next was unexpected. The man, Prakash Mandal, grabbed the venomous snake by its mouth ...

In a world where the discourse around AI often swings between wild optimism and existential fear, Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan have emerged as two of the clearest voices cutting through the ...

Invasive snakes breeding in the wild in at least three UK regions crawl up walls and into attics to survive, researchers said. Aesculapian snakes, which can grow to over 7ft long, originally ...

Britain has only three native snakes but a fourth species, the 2-metre-long Aesculapian snake, is breeding in the wild in at least two places – by exploiting the warmth of buildings and compost ...

The Dodgers had a snake problem in their dugout before dropping Game 2 of the NLCS to the Mets on Monday. A snake slithered into the Los Angeles dugout at the top of the fifth inning before the ...