Reptiles > Venomous Snakes
The Saharan Horned Viper (Cerastes cerastes) is an iconic, heavily armored desert serpent that stands as the quintessential venomous reptile of the Sahara Desert. Renowned throughout world history and immortalized in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics as the phonetic...
Reptiles > Venomous Snakes
The Eyelash Viper (Bothriechis schlegelii), celebrated as one of the most visually stunning and photogenic reptiles in the Neotropics, is an agile, strictly arboreal pit viper that inhabits the humid rainforest canopies of Central and northern South America. This...
Reptiles > Venomous Snakes
The Saw-scaled Viper (Echis carinatus), small in physical stature but lethal in reputation, is a notoriously aggressive solenoglyphous pitless viper that accounts for more human snakebite fatalities and severe envenomation incidents than almost any other snake species...
Reptiles > Venomous Snakes
Russell’s Viper (Daboia russelii) is a heavy-bodied, dangerously venomous solenoglyphous viper that holds notorious prominence as one of the infamous ‘Big Four’ venomous snake species responsible for the vast majority of human snakebite fatalities...
Reptiles > Vipers & Pit Vipers
The Sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes), also widely known as the horned rattlesnake, is a small, highly specialized, and venomous pit viper belonging to the family Viperidae, native to the sun-scorched, wind-sculpted sand dunes of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts of...
