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 ...

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 ...

Mulford’s initial antivenom product—Antivenin Nearctic Crotalidae—treated bites of North American pit vipers, including rattlesnakes, moccasins, and copperheads. This antivenom was polyvalent, meaning ...

Now, these “ambushing” animals have been identified as a new species of snake: the red-barred green pit viper. Researchers ...

The snakes, which grow up to 3.9 feet (1.2 meters) long, are golden lancehead pit vipers (Bothrops insularis ... which is ...

Commonly known as the large-scaled pit viper, these beautiful snakes are listed as ‘Near Threatened’. Gliding frogs can jump and glide from one tree to another, if these are short distances.

While true North American copperheads belong to one species ... copperheads due to similar characteristics. Copperheads are ...