Reaching over 3.5 m in length, the bushmaster (belonging in the Lachesis genus) is the largest viper in the western hemisphere. Legend spread among both colonists and natives from the Amazon region ...

Viper-mimicking snake from Asia is a unique branch in the reptile evolutionary tree The evolutionary history of the mock viper has been solved by an international research team led by scientists from ...

The white lipped tree viper, indigenous to South East Asia, was found in a container that arrived at the Durban harbour. Inset: Warren Dick, a professional snake catcher. Photo: Supplied THE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portrait of a Chinese Tree Viper (Trimeresurus stejnegeri) against a black background ...

Mock vipers not only look like tree-dwelling vipers but also act like them. Intriguingly, they have a fake ‘fang’ in the front of their mouth, which befools a predator into thinking that they possess ...