Vipers like the timber rattlesnakes and the ... You can find timber rattlesnakes spread widely across the eastern United States. They are regionally extinct in Canada and threatened in several ...

They took a closer look at the snakes and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Ovophis zhaoermii, or the Guanyinshan mountain pit viper. An Ovophis zhaoermii, or Guanyinshan ...

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 ...

This is especially true in the southeastern United States. Most of the time ... Cottonmouths are pit vipers and have distinct physical features. They have large, triangular-shaped heads with ...

In the United States, envenomation (the injection of venom ... Mulford’s initial antivenom product—Antivenin Nearctic Crotalidae—treated bites of North American pit vipers, including rattlesnakes, ...