You probably know that the king cobra is the largest venomous snake known to humans, but what if this isn’t entirely true? It all began in 1857 when British paleontologist Richard Owen discovered 13 ...
By the time a human brain registers danger, a viper’s strike is already over. Here’s how these snakes can move faster than ...
Vipers execute strikes in a mere 40-90 milliseconds, significantly faster than human visual or spinal reflexes. These ...
Last week, I answered a question about coral snakes. In this column, I discuss the largest group of venomous snakes found in the Southeast — pit vipers. The Southeast is home to copperheads, ...
Graduate student Evan Buechley, and his colleagues, spotted the new species first in 2013 inside Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains National Park. Based on Buechley’s photographs, a team of scientists ...
A good thing recently came in a small package for scientists: A new snake species found in China is one of the littlest pit vipers in the world. The new snake, Protobothrops maolanensis, was an ...
The reptile, whose name in Hebrew is Land of Israel Viper, lives in the Jewish state, the West Bank, parts of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. (JTA) — Israel declared as its national snake a species that is ...
Over the weekend, 12 St. Lucia Lancehead Vipers were born at the Kentucky Reptile Zoo in Slade. St. Lucia Lancehead Vipers are native only to the small Caribbean island of St. Lucia. The Kentucky ...
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