Found in Australia, these venomous pit viper snakes use ambush tactics ... especially considering how potent its venom is.

Off the coast of Brazil is Ilha de Queimada Grande, better known as 'Snake Island', which is home to one of the most lethal ...

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 reptile, whose name in Hebrew is Land of Israel Viper, lives in the Jewish state, the West Bank, parts of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. (JTA) — Israel declared as its national snake a species ...

Among them is an Asian pit viper whose chocolate-brown and mint-green ... gymnure -- furry members of the hedgehog family -- and a snake found at 2,600 metres on Mount Fansipan in northern Vietnam ...