This is the terrifying moment a King Cobra attacks a woman as she cooks dinner. The woman was stirring durian in a gas-powered wok outside the family home on 7 September, when the 12ft long black ...

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King cobras defy the notion of snakes being purely instinctive. These intelligent reptiles demonstrate adaptive hunting ...

A boy aged two managed to kill a venomous cobra by biting it on its head. Govinda Kumar fought back after the snake coiled itself around his arm while he played outside his home in Bankatwa village in ...

Stockholm — A Swedish zoo has been partially shut down after a king cobra staged an impressive escape from its enclosure at the weekend, with staff on Monday still searching for the venomous vagrant.

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 ...