For the study, Young and colleagues Melissa Boetig and Guido Westhoff analyzed adult, captive specimens of the red spitting cobra, the black-neck spitting cobra and the black-and-white spitting cobra.

It was hardly a brush with death. Animal workers in Singapore responded to a call last week from a woman who heard a hissing sound in her bathroom and became alarmed that a dangerous serpent could … ...

Black swamp snakes are 10- to 15-inch (25–38 cm) long, semi-aquatic, black swamp snakes found in the southeastern United States. They inhabit slow-moving water, wetlands, marshes and swamps.

Death by the Indochinese spitting cobra, also know as the Thai or black-and-white spitting cobra, is caused by paralysis and consequent asphyxiation. A victim can be permanently blinded if the ...

A spitting cobra hatchling in South Africa got a much larger snake stuck in its throat after it tried to eat it. Snake catcher Nick Evans—who provides a snake removal service in South Africa's ...

The large brown spitting cobra was previously believed to be a variant of the black-necked spitting cobra. But studies of its blood and tissue have determined it is a separate species, National ...

Dermonecrosis caused by a spitting cobra snakebite results from toxin potentiation and is prevented by the repurposed drug varespladib. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 ...

10 black snake species around the world, including black spitting cobra, eastern rat snake and more TOI Trending Desk / etimes.in / Updated: May 14, 2025, 11:53 IST Share ...