Get your colored pencils and crayons out, kids. The NC Museum of Natural Sciences is hosting a Viper Illustration Contest for kids in conjunction with Reptile & Amphibian Day, which is March 14. Get ...

Harmless snakes can apparently squish their heads to look like venomous vipers and avoid getting eaten, scientists find. Vipers such as rattlesnakes are notorious for their venom. They also have ...

Vipers are a large family of snakes; the scientific name is Viperidae. They are found all over the world, with the exceptions of Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar, north of the Arctic ...

Viper-mimicking snake from Asia is a unique branch in the reptile evolutionary tree The evolutionary history of the mock viper has been solved by an international research team led by scientists from ...

Researchers who glued minuscule plastic balls onto the faces of live rattlesnakes say the project has revealed the first experimental evidence of an overlooked role for the viper’s heat-sensing organs ...

While on a field trip in Thailand with his colleagues, researcher Colin Strine of Sakaerat Environmental Research Station in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, was met with one of Nature’s fake-out moments.

Five new species of brightly colored vipers have been discovered, hidden deep within the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador. The eyelash vipers were all previously thought to be part of a single ...