Nestled between the Deep South and the Atlantic Ocean, Georgia is famous for its natural beauty. The Peach State is also home to an impressive 47 different snake species. While this may sound alarming ...

Coral snakes are part of the Cobra family, and a bite from one may not be noticeable at first, but their poison is deadly. It is a neurotoxin and attacks the nervous system. Fortunately, coral […] ...

Seven venomous snakes call Louisiana home, including coral snakes, cottonmouths, rattlesnakes and copperheads. According to ...

It was unclear whether the wasp had stung the coral snake to make it whip about. It was also unclear how the two snakes ended up in the branches of the bush. “Don’t know how rat snake got ...

Pensoft Publishers. (2024, March 26). Two coral snakes recorded battling for prey in a scientific first. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 03 ...

The winning snake then slithered away with its meal. Two coral snakes are pictured competing over amphibian prey. This is the first documented case of food theft occurring in this species.

If coral snake bites you, don't count on antivenin It's no longer being made, since there's little call for the costly shot By MARY ANN ROSER , AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN June 20, 2010 ...

Today's gem from the Chronicle archive concerns journalist Tim Fleck, who like any good reporter, gravitated toward trouble instead of running away from it. In 1988, while jogging along Buffalo ...

Florida accounts for about two-thirds of the national total of 100 to 150 coral snake bites a year. Even in Florida, however, not all doctors are quick to treat with antivenin, says Jack Facente ...

Of the forty or so coral snake bites Greene has treated, he recalls just two exceptions to that rule: “One was a woman who stepped on it barefoot in the dark, and the other was a guy who reached ...