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 ...

As pit vipers, they have specialized pit organs that ... The key differences between timber rattlesnakes and eastern diamondbacks are their habitat and range, physical markings, size, and behavior.

As a result, individuals who are bitten by Pope’s Pit Viper or other less-studied pit vipers remain vulnerable to severe and ...

Two Protobothrops flavirostris, or Vang Vieng lance-headed pit vipers, as seen in their natural habitat. Photos from J. Wohlschiess and P.L. Stenger via Grassby-Lewis, Brakels, Maury, Sitthivong ...

And as with all pit vipers, the eastern diamondback is able to hunt in total ... But less than 2 or 3 percent of the original habitat's pine coverage remains, and habitat loss and fragmentation is ...

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 ...

“Though (the red-barred green pit viper) appears to be locally common ... distribution of the new species makes it vulnerable to habitat degradation.” The snake’s bright colors may also ...

Commonly known as the large-scaled pit viper, these beautiful snakes are ... This is a critically endangered species because the habitat is degraded by tea and eucalyptus plantation.