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 ...

Fire chasers only lay their eggs in freshly burnt trees ... Here’s another animal that’s especially good at detecting heat: the pit viper. It’s called a pit viper because it has special ...

Commonly known as the large-scaled pit viper, these beautiful snakes are listed ... females and to establish their territory. Females lay eggs on shrubs, trees, inside bamboo, or rock crevices ...