Scientists at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have shown that the simple zig-zag pattern on the back of the European viper serves three different purposes; it helps it avoid detection; warns ...

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 ...

The viper's zig-zag pattern helps the snake remain undetected, it also provides a warning of the snake's dangerous defense and it can produce an illusionary effect that may hide the snake's movement ...

When you share the same habitat as a venomous snake, pretending to be one of them could be the trick to not being eaten by predators. At least that's what Congolese giant toads seem to do. The toads ...

Across the Indian countryside, a familiar but often unseen threat is quietly changing. Russell’s viper, already one of the ...

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.

Graduate student Evan Buechley, and his colleagues, spotted the new species first in 2013 inside Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains National Park. Based on Buechley’s photographs, a team of scientists ...

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 ...