CAMP FOSTER — Okinawa is a haven for outdoor activities during summer, but also a place where some dangerous land and sea critters can put a serious crimp in the fun. Take poisonous habu snakes, for ...

It is more likely that you have seen a habu snake in a bottle of local rice liquor Awamori, in Okinawa, than that you've spotted one slithering by the wayside. Even so, habus are very common in the ...

NAHA—A venomous elegant pitviper was found dead on Miyakojima, a subtropical southern island long believed free from poisonous snakes. The snake was discovered at a port on the island, about 330 ...

A bite from a pit viper, locally known as habu, can cause permanent disability and even death. Yet, much about its venom remains an enigma. Highly variable in composition, even between littermates, ...

CHATAN, Okinawa — Bathers are getting stung and Okinawa beaches are closing due to the early return this summer of the Habu Kurage, or stinger jellyfish. The emergency room of the U.S. Naval Hospital ...

Using lifesaving skills he learned from the Marine Corps, Sgt. John James from Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, was able to save a local elderly woman from a venomous ...

In the Pacific war, U.S. forces have always been handicapped by a dearth of accurate information. One minor example: intelligence officers warned that Okinawa was crawling with poisonous snakes, ...

For the first time, researchers have sequenced a habu genome, that of the Taiwan habu, and compared it to that of its sister species. A bite from a pit viper, locally known as habu, can cause ...