The snake — which Wade said was about 5 inches in diameter and about 5 feet long and actually was one of two such snakes in the house — is a Gaboon viper, a native of sub-Saharan Africa. One of the ...

The Earth has seen some truly gigantic snakes throughout its history, and these creatures were so massive and powerful that ...

Walking the grasslands of what is now Greece 4 million years ago was a dangerous proposition: Lurking among the vegetation was the largest venomous snake ever known to man. What makes Laophis even ...

The Russell's Viper is a large snake with a triangular head, and three longitudinal rows of dark, circular, or oval markings on its brown body. The saw-scaled viper has a stout body and a pear-shaped ...