Ilha da Queimada Grande, known colloquially as “ Snake Island,” is a jut of oceanic rock that measures some 43 hectares (106 acres), and most people — including decision-makers in the Brazilian ...

Gold Coast snake catcher Bryan Robinson confirmed the species and said “it is without a doubt a highly lethal species of snake”. Mr Robinson said sea snakes were less reluctant to bite than ...

Snake Island was isolated from the Brazilian mainland at the end of the last ice age, trapping Earth's only known population of highly venomous golden lancehead pit vipers on a rock in the Atlantic.

By Joe Shaw of RNZ. A venomous sea snake has been found on the South Island’s West Coast – the second one to be discovered on New Zealand’s shores in less than a week.