A raised hood may look familiar, but science reveals King cobras and common cobras differ sharply in venom, behaviour, and ...

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, ...

When one thinks of snakes, slithering, hissing, and maybe a little fear come first and foremost to mind. But what if we told you that the one of the most well known snakes in the world might just be ...

The mighty king cobra — the world's longest venomous snake — is actually four distinct species, scientists have confirmed in a new study. For 188 years, the king cobra has been represented by a single ...

You may not know this yet, but king cobras are the longest venomous snake in the world. Not only can this snake reach nearly 20 feet in length, but the king cobra has enough venom in it to kill at ...

"When the cobra runs for her life, she goes like a whiplash flicked across a horse's neck," Rudyard Kipling wrote of the villainous cobra Nagaina in his story of the heroic mongoose Rikki-Tiki-Tavi.