It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick ...

Canterbury powerhouse Viliame Kikau has tied the knot in the most star-studded wedding of the NRL pre-season. Kikau, and his ...

Vipers launched from coils with smooth, explosive acceleration. If the first stab wasn’t perfect, they “walked” a fang out ...

Climate change is driving many of Australia's native reptiles toward extinction, and the answers to their future survival may lie in the fossil record.

Former North Melbourne AFL player and Frankston Dolphins star Tom Murphy is the new playing-coach of Pines. The 27-year-old ...

Prunella Scales, who played Sybil Fawlty in the classic British comedy series Fawlty Towers, has died aged 93.

Advanced video techniques reveal exactly how snake bites work and show various snake species have evolved very different ...

A reintroduction ecologist recently captured rare footage of a giant carpet python in Gawler Ranges National Park, according ...

Southwestern carpet pythons generally prefer coastal, woodland, or grassland habitats. Encounters in Gawler Ranges National ...

Melbourne United came away from the Far North with what can only be described as a straightforward victory over the Cairns ...

High-speed cameras have been used to capture the biting mechanisms of different kinds of snakes, including vipers and the ...

An oft-quoted fact about the inland taipan is that it could kill 250,000 mice or 100 adult humans with the venom of a single ...