Encountering a snake in the wild can be startling, but knowing how to quickly identify a venomous one could be lifesaving.

Now, these “ambushing” animals have been identified as a new species of snake: the red-barred green pit viper. Researchers were surveying the karst environment when they noticed the animals ...

Breeding snakes in captivity “is doable, not rocket science,” he says, as he offers a virtual tour of the serpentarium, which ...

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 ...

Commonly known as the large-scaled pit viper, these beautiful snakes are listed as ‘Near Threatened’. Gliding frogs can jump and glide from one tree to another, if these are short distances.