Cambodia is home to 99 species of snake, including 16 which are venomous, according to the Terrestrial Research and Conservation Group, which studies reptiles in Cambodia. Neang Thy, head of the group ...

Pit vipers, along with several of their snake cousins, marry two senses to better locate prey at night: sight and a heat-detecting ability. Deep pits, which lie on each side of the snake's face ...

To be fair, we understand the hesitation to conduct such tests with species like the venomous pit viper snake or the deadly taipan. The coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) is another fast ...

The research was conducted in northern Florida, where a variety of dangerous American pit vipers can be found, including the timber rattlesnake, water moccasin, eastern diamondback rattlesnake and ...

Now, these “ambushing” animals have been identified as a new species of snake: the red-barred green pit viper. Researchers were surveying the karst environment when they noticed the animals ...

In a mystic seizure of measures, the Salazar Pit Viper, named after the renowned Salazar Slytherin from the famous 'Harry Potter' series, has been freshly dotted on the highways of Assam's ...

The Crotalinae, commonly known as pit vipers, crotaline snakes (named for the Ancient Greek: κρόταλον krotalon castanet/rattle of a rattlesnake's tail), or pit adders, are a subfamily of venomous ...