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 ...

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 ...