In the animal kingdom, there are many grand examples of species that make sense of their world by expertly deciphering even weak signals from their surroundings. An eagle soaring above the ground ...

The Mangshan pit viper, a rare and highly venomous snake confined to a handful of mountain forests in China’s Hunan and Guangdong provinces, is sliding toward extinction. The species carries an ...

Scientists have uncovered a fascinating new species of pit viper in Myanmar that seems to blur the very definition of what a species is. This snake, now named the Ayeyarwady pit viper, puzzled ...

Asian pit vipers of the genus Trimeresurus are notoriously difficult to tell apart and continue puzzling researchers to this day. Some species groups have similar-looking species (different species ...