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 ...

I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal ... he would step into a room where a pit viper or Bothrops jararaca was held captive. He would gently place his foot on the snake ...

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DALLAS — There are even more snakes slithering around the reptile room at the Dallas Zoo, as it welcomed six eyelash pit viper hatchlings on Wednesday. The don't-tread-on-me yellow-colored ...

Editor's note: This is part of a series of videos offering an up-close perspective on the animal kingdom ... The Nihon “mamushi,” or Japanese pit viper, is a fairly small snake, but its ...

It may be the progenitor of the whole pit viper family, of which it is the longest. The group includes rattlesnake, moccasin, copperhead, fer-de-lance. On the end of the bushmaster’s tail is a ...

Ilha da Queimada Grande, or "Snake Island" is home to 4,000 golden lancehead vipers, one of the most venomous snakes in the ...

Over the past five years, the Forest Department's records show that 221 people have died from snakebites in Kerala. While ...