The rattlers depicted on yellow Gadsden flags and Craig Ferguson's coffee mug are all-American vipers. Noted for their venom, vipers make up a widespread snake family that's represented on most of the ...

A Virginia man fought for survival after he was bitten by a deadly African Pit Viper he was keeping as a pet. The man was rushed to a Richmond hospital where staff raced to treat him with antivenom, ...

World Snake Day is July 16, but at The Clarion Ledger and The Hattiesburg American, we're having Snake Week. After all, sharks have their own week, so why not snakes? From July 14-18, The ...

Last week, I answered a question about coral snakes. In this column, I discuss the largest group of venomous snakes found in the Southeast — pit vipers. The Southeast is home to copperheads, ...

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 ...

Deadly pit vipers are capable of virgin birth, scientists now find, joining their constrictor relatives in the ability to reproduce without sex. Female pit vipers can also conserve sperm after sex for ...

For the first time, researchers have sequenced a habu genome, that of the Taiwan habu, and compared it to that of its sister species. A bite from a pit viper, locally known as habu, can cause ...