As a result, individuals who are bitten by Pope’s Pit Viper or other less-studied pit vipers remain vulnerable to severe and ...

They took a closer look at the snakes and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Ovophis zhaoermii, or the Guanyinshan mountain pit viper. An Ovophis zhaoermii, or Guanyinshan ...

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 ...

The hemipenis of the red-barred green pit viper has “well-developed dense ... found between (8 p.m.) and (1 a.m.) after rain on a low bush close to the ground.” Some of the snakes that weren ...

Commonly known as the large-scaled pit viper, these beautiful snakes are listed ... Discovered by Günther in 1876, these bush frogs belonging to the genus Raorchestes are small and dwell on ...