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An aerial safari is the best way to understand one of the most remote places on our planet, says Sarah Marshall.
Coral snakes are venomous elapids known all around the world for how dangerous they can be. They are one of the only snakes ...
A Vienna man shared his experience of being bitten by a brown recluse spider, which resulted in severe pain and swelling, and recommends keeping an eye out for spiders in cold, damp, dark places ...
Brown recluse spiders will be confined to only 5% of their natural territory by 2080 if the species does not learn to migrate north.
A 65-year-old man in Hertfordshire suffers severe pain from a spider bite. The bite is suspected to be from the UK's most venomous spider, the false widow. Doctors diagnosed him with cellulitis ...
Travel writer Sara Iannacone struggled with intense symptoms on the road. Here’s what she wished she would have known.
A new study has revealed why some spiders possess venom that is far more potent than others. By analyzing the venoms of more than 70 different spider species, the team explored whether factors such as ...
A BITE from "Britain's most dangerous spider" has left a man in "unbearable" pain and struggling to walk. Keith Robinson, 65, says he developed a large, angry inflammation on his leg shortly after ...
So I'm thinking that I've disturbed a spider, and at some point, I got bitten.' The bite, unnoticeable at first, only got worse as the days passed. He said: 'The stinging pain almost became ...
At first he tried to treat it himself using painkillers and Savlon, but before long it became too much to bear and he went to the hospital. Now he's been diagnosed with cellulitis around the wound ...