Ilha da Queimada Grande is home to a variety of viper - Bothrops insularis - that cannot be found anywhere else on the planet. Better known as the golden lancehead viper, the snake carries an ...

Snake Island is a small, forested island off the coast of Brazil that writhes with thousands of venomous vipers. The snakes, ...

Biologist João Miguel Alves Nunes conducted a daring study to understand the defensive behavior of jararacas, venomous snakes found in South America. The Brazilian researcher from the Instituto ...

The Brazilian navy declared the island ... navy on an annual maintenance trek to the dangerous island. After about eight hours at sea, Snake Island's ominous silhouette appeared in the distance.

A yellow-and-brown boa constrictor wraps itself around David de Oliveira Gomes’s neck like a scarf, but the 15-year-old Brazilian ... to human contact. No poisonous snakes are used.