Scientists are trying to extend the protection to Exmouth Gulf and the reptiles there Six to 8 million years ago, a snake related to swamp snakes or tiger snakes slithered into the sea.

Brooke L. Bessesen Bessesen became interested in the yellow sea snake while surveying the biodiversity of the gulf in 2010. The region, she discovered, is a crucial habitat for many creatures ...

In the dead of night, a small boat slides across Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria ... fish they are after — they are searching for sea snakes. As NATURE’s The Venom Cure reveals, their ...

The researchers scooped up about 70 sea snakes on spotlighting nights and tagged more than 50 collected as bycatch by the gulf’s prawn trawlers. Sea snake recorded bycatch by fishers was as ...

Fishermen wading barefoot through a writhing ball of venomous serpents can pay a high price for participating in the Gulf of Thailand's (map) sea snake harvest. Some die from snakebites ...

The true sea snakes originated in Australia, which is the centre of their diversity, and there are about 36 named species here. North-western Australia is a particular hotspot with about 24 species: ...

The researchers carried out tests on 10 Arabian Gulf coral reef sea snakes, two ornate sea snakes collected from the west coast, and a single spine-bellied sea snake found on the east coast.

Dramatic footage has captured the moment a fisherman was recued off a remote part of the Australian coast after he was bitten by a sea snake. The man was on a fishing vessel in the Joseph ...

Beach walkers were greeted with a grisly scene on Tuesday, with an enormous snake stopping them in their tracks during their early-morning stroll. They encountered a highly venomous stokes sea ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the annulated sea snake, a species of venomous snake found in ocean waters around Australia and Asia ...

Blanche D’Anastasi, a sea snake researcher at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia, travels to remote regions like Exmouth Gulf, on the country’s northwest coast, to find sea snakes ...