Covering every black snake that had white on its belly is quite ... The cottonmouth is the only semiaquatic pit viper that ...

All rattlesnakes found in Oklahoma produce a powerful and dangerous venom that destroys tissue and disrupts blood clotting. Although copperheads are responsible for the most snakebites in the United ...

As a pit viper, its head is large and triangular ... The cottonmouth is a mottled, dark-colored snake that can appear black, until it opens its mouth. Known for its bright shade of white inside ...

Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight ...

Snake bites certainly do occur ... though they do not have the triangular head nor the pits of a pit viper, they do have a black snout. This helps distinguish them from other, non-venomous ...

Pit vipers, along with several of their snake cousins, marry two senses to ... Heat and visual data are sent, via the optic nerve, to the pit-viper's brain, where the two types of data are ...