Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Scientists recently split the king cobra into four separate ...

Have you seen a King Cobra and Python duel? It's a fascinating scene, one in which there can only be one winner and one loser who dies a miserable death, usually ending up in the champion’s menu. The ...

King cobras are the heavyweight champions of the snake world. These are the largest and longest of any other venomous snake on Earth. This is what makes the king cobra so infamous among snake species, ...

Snakes are often viewed with a combination of fascination and fear, mainly because of their possibly dangerous venom and sometimes elusive nature. However, it must be said that most snake species are ...

While men fell to bullets and bombs everywhere, the world’s longest venomous snake ever recorded was also caught in the crossfire. Here’s how it happened. Amid the chaos of World War II, tales of ...