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 ...

Brazilian Lancehead (Bothrops moojeni). Image via Shutterstock Picture a serpent so colossal that it challenges the very definition of its species. The largest recorded Lancehead snake surpassed all ...

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