Examples include the horned viper with its mythical devilish horns, the rhinoceros viper with its wart-covered scales, and the Gaboon viper with its triangular head and long fangs. Each snake also ...

Encountering a snake in the wild can be startling, but knowing how to quickly identify a venomous one could be lifesaving.

The narrow-headed garter snake is a nonvenomous snake found in and near the cool, clear headwater streams of the U.S. Southwest. With its stripeless, grayish-colored body, it has been called “drab” in ...

Also, it has "two short white stripes" on each side of its sub-triangular head and "and a higher average of mid-dorsal scale counts." The researchers measured the snake at nearly 4 feet long ...

And 38 snake species in North Carolina ... As a rule of thumb, most venomous snakes have a triangular or diamond-shaped head, and nonvenomous snakes have a tapered head. Don’t put all your ...