Most individuals of this species are emerald green or a "Christmas" morph: red, green, and white ... purple, grey, lavender, and periwinkle snake is a Khwarg’s eyelash pit viper (B.

In this column, I discuss the largest group of venomous snakes found in the Southeast — pit vipers. The Southeast is home to copperheads, cottonmouths and three kinds of rattlesnakes ...

Robyn White ... dark brownish-gray to deep orange-brown, adorned with trapezoidal patches along its back. These physical characteristics not only differentiate it from other pit vipers, but ...

Pit vipers related to rattlesnakes but much more poisonous, they swarm in the undergrowth, festoon the trees. They are found nowhere else in all the world, and their control of the mile-long ...

Photos show several Ayeyarwady pit vipers. One snake has an ombré body, with its mossy green back fading to lime green and an almost yellow-white coloring on its belly. Another photo shows an ...

The vipers were born Oct. 11, the zoo said via its X account. Eyelash pit vipers are known for their signature “eyelash” scales — a unique evolutionary feature that helps them survive in ...

Their “short” tails have a “series of white spots.” The head of an Ovophis zhaoermii, or Guanyinshan mountain pit viper. Photos from Liu, Hou, Mo, Li, Li, Luo, Rao and Li (2025 ...

They took a closer look and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Protobothrops flavirostris, or the Vang Vieng lance-headed pit viper ... Photos show the gray-brown coloring ...