Last week, I answered a question about coral snakes. In this column, I discuss the largest group of venomous snakes found in the Southeast — pit vipers. The Southeast is home to copperheads, ...

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 ...

A Virginia man fought for survival after he was bitten by a deadly African Pit Viper he was keeping as a pet. The man was rushed to a Richmond hospital where staff raced to treat him with antivenom, ...

A growing number of people in China are purchasing Indonesian venomous pit vipers as pets, the same species of snake as Zootopia 2's Gary De'Snake character, played by Key Huy Quan A 21-year-old man ...

Few places in the world are more dangerous than Ilha da Queimada Grande — the Brazilian island where venomous vipers rule the land and only a few researchers are ever allowed. Despite their fearsome ...

'Zootopia 2 helps give reptile pets a better image – they’re not oddballs...,' said one man who recently bought an Indonesian pit viper Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...