A man who injected himself with snake venom helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from poisonous snakes.

Scientists hope to make a universal antivenom from the extraordinary blood of a man exposed to snake venom for decades.

A new antivenom relies on antibodies from the blood of Tim Friede, who immunized himself against snakebites by injecting increasing doses of venom into his body.

The antivenom neutralized the neurotoxins of deadly species including the black mamba, king cobra and tiger snakes. The post ...

In spring 2025, the East Bay Vivarium announced it had hatched a two-headed California king snake that is doing well after ...

A rare occurrence of two brains in one body at a Berkeley pet store. One hatchling born at East Bay Vivarium turned out to be ...

A rare occurrence of two brains in one body at a Berkeley pet store. One hatchling born at East Bay Vivarium turned out to be ...

A cute and crawly kingsnake with two heads is chowing on mice and chilling with its keepers at the East Bay Vivarium in ...

Biologists trudged through the grassy nature preserve carrying cloth bags that contained fearsome-seeming cargo: 42 snake-eating apex predators. The conservation program has now released 209 Eastern ...

The Prophecy of the Popes is a controversial and widely debated series of cryptic Latin phrases that are believed to predict ...