In Upstate New York in the last decade, 264 snakebites (venomous and non-) were reported to the Poison Center, 51 of them in Orange County ... Both rattlesnakes and copperheads are pit vipers, ...

VIPER's long and winding road will now feature a ride to the lunar surface on Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander. VIPER has officially come back from the dead. The NASA moon robot, whose name is short for ...

Pit Viper started as a sunglass company rebranding surplus military glasses with bold 80s-inspired colors and designs. Over the years, the brand’s quality and performance have steadily increased, and ...

Scientists found a 2-foot-long predator with colorful eyes in Tibet and discovered an “extremely rare” new species, a study said. Photo from Y.H. Xu via Xu, Nguyen, Wang, Zhang, Poyarkov, Wei, Vogel, ...

Scientists bought “snake liquor” in North Korea and identified its contents as the country’s first confirmed records of three venomous species of pit vipers. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto In hopes of ...

Michigan’s only species of venomous snake is in trouble. Eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus) are becoming more isolated because of habitat fragmentation in the state, which is ...

Six venomous snake species reside in Mississippi, including the copperhead, cottonmouth, eastern diamondback rattlesnake, pygmy rattlesnake, timber rattlesnake, and coral snake. The eastern ...

Boasting more than 80 distinct ecosystems, Florida is a biodiversity hot spot. More than 4,000 animal species, in fact, are native to the Sunshine State. As the weather heats up, a growing number of ...

ABILENE, Tx — A rare and critically endangered snake at the Abilene Zoo has laid eggs. The rare Mangshan Pit Viper, which is native to the mountains of China, laid a clutch of eggs at the Abilene Zoo.

Snakes "smell" with their forked tongues, collecting scent particles to analyze with their Jacobson's organ. Snakes don't have external ears. They sense vibrations through their jawbone and inner ear.

The well-known copperhead is often mistaken for lesser-known species of nonvenomous snakes. One common snake that is sometimes confused with the venomous copperhead is the similar-looking chicken ...