The snake was spotted outside a residence in Maharashtra, in western India. After the deadly snake was located, it was taken to a facility that handles such creatures. Despite being one of the ...

For visitors who don't shriek when they see a snake, rhino vipers are beautiful. Their heavily patterned bodies sport a variety of colors: red, yellow, blue, brown, black.

The Gaboon viper is the heaviest venomous snake in Africa, stretching up to six feet and weighing as much as 25 pounds. With a broad, leaf-shaped head and patterns that look like dead leaves and ...

That would be a source of concern to most, given the fearsome reputation of the viper subspecies, which is known for its super-quick strike speed. A 2016 study published in Biology Letters found ...

They included garter snakes, a coastal banded California king snake, a rhino rat snake and a Kenyan sand boa, among others. Customs officers at Mumbai airport are more used to seizing smuggled ...

Figure 1: The comparative genomic landscape of five-pacer viper. Figure 3: Evolution of snake genes and gene families. Like many of its reptile relatives, the snake ancestor is very likely to have ...

While on a field trip in Thailand with his colleagues, researcher Colin Strine of Sakaerat Environmental Research Station in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, was met with one of Nature’s fake-out moments.

CM Sarma heartily proclaimed, "Guess what, Kaziranga just found a realistic Harry Potter snake! Come across the wonderful Salazar Pit Viper, its green like mystic and has a rhythmic red-orange ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In the backdrop of deaths resulting from pit viper bites in Kasaragod and Idukki districts, demands are rising to develop anti-snake venom for a variety of vipers found in the ...