Snakes are admired for their beauty and significance in ecosystems. Across the globe, species like the blue coral snake, San ...

The king cobra, previously believed to be a single species, is now identified as a complex of four distinct species due to ...

While men fell to bullets and bombs everywhere, the world’s longest venomous snake ever recorded was also caught in the ...

Three new species of king cobras have recently been identified, and the Field Museum’s collection has been harboring one of ...

Researchers used the Field Museum's snake collection to help discover that what they thought was one species making up king cobras is actually four. They noticed differences in bands — one specimen ...

But the herpetologists (reptile and amphibian experts) and scientists face an extra challenge when it comes to collecting spitting cobra venom. These snakes are a double threat. Not only can they ...