Some herpetologists consider kinking a response to feeling threatened. Others have reported it occurring without apparent ...

Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) are venmous snakes that inhabit the Eastern and Central United States. Could you pick one out of a lineup of venomous snakes? If the answer is no, then read on to ...

Eyelash pit vipers come in a variety of color variations including bright yellow, pink, ... Young Formosa odd-scaled snakes are usually black. In the light, the entire body appears iridescent.

How a pit viper saved millions of lives: Snakes as drug factories. By Carl Zimmer. March 11, 2011 ... which use the molecule to make their prey black out from a drop in blood pressure.

Stretching from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail (AT) is the longest hiking-only footpath in the world. It’s 2,197 ...

Tens of thousands of people die from snakebites every year, but Jarratt Lark, a medical doctor and assistant professor of emergency medicine and director of environmental medicine at Grand Strand ...

The eastern diamondback is one of Florida's most dangerous snakes. They are pit vipers, ... Black racer. Black racers are perhaps the most familiar and recognizable snake species in Central Florida.

An eagle soaring above the ground spies a river fish down below, about to swallow a bug; a hungry black bear smells a morsel of food two miles away in a dense thicket; a duck-billed platypus, swimming ...

Q. In a recent column you said bushmasters are the largest pit vipers in the world. I was told pit vipers have vertical pupils, which is one way to determine ...