Snakebite affects millions of people each year. A new research project explores the conditions under which the jararaca pit viper of South America is most likely to lash out–and how this informs ...

COVID vaccine technology could help reduce disabilities in people caused by injuries from snakebites. Researchers at the University of Reading, England, found that the same mRNA tech used in ...

The island of Queimada Grande, off the coast of southeastern Brazil, is the kingdom of a snake called Bothrops insularis. Pit vipers related to rattlesnakes but much more poisonous, they swarm in the ...

The serpent that gave origin to all jararacas – the number 1 – must have arrived in South America between 11 million and 20 million years ago. Probably it came from Central America, moving from one ...

Parque Nacional Henri Pittier, below entrance to Rancho Grande, Aragua, Venezuela, South America Published Name ...