Ann & Steve Toon / Spur winged plover (Vanellus spinosus) profile portrait, Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya, September

Paul D Stewart / 1491 Woodblock illustration of a from Ortus (Hortus) sanitatis - man taking a cure for snake bite. Hortus Sanitatis translates from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. The Hortus was the first printed na...

Roland Seitre / Coastal Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) being milked for antivenom, Australian Reptile Park, New South Wales, Australia

Daniel Heuclin / Extracting venom from Gaboon Viper (Bitis gabonica rhinoceros) for the production of antivenom. Ghana, Africa.

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) being milked for anti-venom, Germany

Bruce Thomson / Sydney funnel web spider (Atrax robustus) close up showing venom droplets on fangs, bites were nearly always fatal before developing antivenom, Bunya Pine Mountains National Park, Queensland, Australi...