Photo by the National Forestry and Wildlife Service A person in northwestern Peru was bitten by a venomous ... barnetti — a venomous species of pit viper — according to an April 16 news ...

There was the pit viper that bit his pant leg ... which he contracted in Peru. Indeed, the dream almost ended at its beginning. Making things harder than they necessarily had to be (a recurring ...

On the morning of July 24, 1911, an enterprising lecturer-explorer from Yale University set off in a cold drizzle to investigate rumors of ancient Inca ruins in Peru. The explorer chopped his way ...

Cryptic green pit vipers have “long” and “thin” bodies, reaching about 24 inches in length, the study said. Their “triangular” heads have “large” eyes and a “flattened” snout.

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 ...

A person in northwestern Peru was bitten by a venomous snake that ... by a baby Bothrops barnetti — a venomous species of pit viper — according to an April 16 news release.