Red alert level warnings are in place at Ruamāhanga River from Doubles Bridge to Kokotau, due to moderate amounts of toxic algae mats on the river’s edge. The Regional Council advises people ...

Bridget Thomson was a broke 21-year-old when she did a reptile handling course and "fell in love" with snake catching, despite some difficult customers.

Greater Wellington Regional Council has warned that people and dogs must avoid contact with water in the Wairarapa due to ...

New proteins not found in nature have now been designed to counteract certain highly poisonous components of snake venom. The deep learning, computational methods for developing these ...

A new study in Nature by last year's Nobel Laureate in Chemistry reveals a possible game-changer in snakebite treatment. Researchers have created new ...

New proteins not found in nature have now been designed to counteract certain highly poisonous components of snake venom. The deep learning ...

A poisonous red spitting cobra (Naja pallida) in front of a model of a toxic snake protein (orange) and a designed antitoxin protein.

A study by this year's Nobel Laureate in Chemistry reveals a possible game-changer in snakebite treatment. Researchers have ...

The current way to produce antivenoms is antiquated. Experiments in mice suggest that an artificial intelligence approach could save time and money.

A groundbreaking study led by Nobel Laureate David Baker and Timothy Patrick Jenkins introduces innovative, computationally ...

Snakebites affect 1.8 to 2.7 million people annually, causing around 100,000 deaths and three times as many permanent ...

Each year, snake bites kill upwards of 100,000 people and permanently disable hundreds of thousands more, according to ...