Photo from Liu, Hou, Mo, Li, Li, Luo, Rao and Li (2025) Guanyinshan mountain pit vipers have “slender” bodies, reaching over 2 feet in length, the study said. Their heads are “pear shaped ...

Pit vipers, along with several of their snake cousins, marry two senses to better locate prey at night: sight and a heat-detecting ability. Deep pits, which lie on each side of the snake's face ...