A Cameroon woman tragically died from a carpet viper bite mere hours after giving birth to her child, per a harrowing case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

About a fifth of reptile species - from the Galapagos tortoises to the Komodo dragon of the Indonesian islands, from West Africa's rhinoceros viper to India's gharial - are threatened with ...

Some of those species include the inland taipan, bushmaster, rhinoceros viper, African bush viper, Gaboon viper, green mamba, eyelash viper, multiple species of spitting cobra, forest cobra, puff ...

Nearly 200 snakes, representing 24 species that are among the “most dangerous in the world,” were bought and sold as part of an undercover illegal wildlife trafficking investigation in Florida ...

African bush viper (not the one pictured) is one of the snakes that was illegally trafficked in Florida, wildlife officials said. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File Nearly 200 snakes, representing 24 ...