A rare white cobra was found hiding beneath a cupboard inside a home in Udaipur. The snake was safely rescued, and its ...

The Caspian cobra is not a snake that appears often in public discussions about India's wildlife. Most attention tends to focus on the better-known species found across the plains and forests, while ...

Few snakes command the kind of fear the king cobra inspires, and its size is a large part of why. The species averages 10 to 12 feet in length but can stretch to 18 feet, a maximum documented by the ...

A king cobra raises its hood and locks eyes with a handler standing directly in its path. What happens next puts into sharp ...

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Technical University of Denmark have developed a recombinant antivenom that provides broad protection against the venom of spectacled cobras ...

From cobras and kraits to monitor lizards, these Indian animals use their forked tongues to collect chemical clues from their surroundings.