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Health

I have been bitten by more than 200 snakes 鈥� on purpose

If you are unlucky enough to have been bitten by a snake, you are unlikely to want to repeat the experience. Not so for Tim Friede, who intentionally exposes himself to deadly bites in the hope of developing a treatment for the 5 million people who are bitten each year

Taken in the Italian village, Cocullo, which celebrates the day of Saint Domenic. 2025

Life

Italian festival of the snake-catchers revealed in colourful photos

Health

Innovative antivenom may work against the world’s deadliest snakes

Life

Invasive snake is surviving in Britain by living in attics and walls

A black-necked spitting cobra (Naja nigricollis)

Health

Blood-thinning drug heparin may stop snakebite victims losing limbs

Life

Vivid snake species with blue lips and yellow eyes is new to science

Life

Fossil snake discovered in India may have been the largest ever

Life

Pickled snake in museum is a new species 鈥� but may already be extinct

Life

Some sea snakes have re-evolved the ability to see more colours

Snakes are quite quantum, mathematically speaking

Life

Wiggly worms and quantum objects follow surprisingly similar equations

An equation developed to describe the motion of undulating animals and robots looks like the famous Schr枚dinger equation from quantum mechanics

Life

Weird skin-eating amphibians have no legs due to snake-like mutation

Life

Some anacondas can perform a strange S-shaped leap and now we know why

Life

Snakes have been seen doing somersaults when they鈥檙e scared

Technology

Robot snake that moves like a sidewinder could inspect sewage pipes