Africa’s coolest pest control agents have fangs, no overheads and a killer instinct. Enter the puff adder (Bitis arietans) — ...

Puff adders protect African crops by eating rodents. They outcompete mammals during outbreaks and need no care.

Snakes are typically regarded as land-dwelling creatures. But in the forests of southern Asia, a remarkable lineage has taken ...

They are usually pretty surprised to learn that you can own so many exotic types of animals here in Kansas City without being ...

The largest venomous snakes in the world rule their respective domains with their sheer size, imposing presence, and ...

The wall of a Cody family’s garage had to be pulled off to get to a pair of breeding bull snakes. After first fearing they were rattlesnakes, the ...

These colorful snakes aren't just works of art. Erected for the World Health Assembly, they're meant to draw attention to an ...

In a river of South Africa, a patterned creature with a “sickle shaped” mouth swam through the “dark peat-stained” waters.

New research from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has revealed that puff adders (Bitis ...

tortoises and snakes, and at least nine amphibians, for sale in Germany and other European countries. Most of these animals were native, and some endemic, to South Africa. Among the endemics were ...

A trio of researchers from institutions in Africa have explored whether honeyguides in Mozambique sometimes lead human hunters to dangerous animals as ... to poisonous snakes and the fourth ...