The practice of eating other snakes helps reduce competition for food resources and ensures a steady supply of prey. In addition to the King Cobra, the Eastern Kingsnake in North America is ...

The prey might fight back in its last moments of life, or the snake could be caught off-guard by a larger predator during the struggle. Other snakes, like rattlesnakes, instead use a "strike-and ...

Man-eating snakes are incredibly rare. Most victims are babies or young children ... Snakes can’t chew to process their food, but in rear-fanged snakes some species will gnaw on their prey, which ...

The lack of blinking may have led to the myth that snakes hypnotise their prey. Snakes don’t have ... venomous snake species. Egg-eating snakes have few teeth so they can swallow an egg whole.

Strikes and envenomates prey. Largely rodents, but also other snakes (including venomous species ... Builds nests for eggs, sometimes cannibalistic, eating other King cobras or related species.

Lots of animals use venom for predation, killing or immobilising their prey before eating it. It’s also commonly used for defence, serving would-be predators with a painful and memorable warning.

Native to South and Southeast Asia, Burmese pythons are an invasive species impacting native wildlife in Florida's Everglades.