Snakes are rather strange animals in general thanks to their bizarre anatomy, but have you ever wondered: what are the most unusual, odd, and absolute weirdest snakes in the entire world? What kind of ...

Nature is full of amazing creatures whose species have evolved over centuries to get to where they are today. One amazing adaptation is mimicry, a tool that some species use to trick both predators ...

In the rocky hills of western Iran, one of the world’s strangest snakes lives. At first glance, the spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides) looks like any other desert ...

The spider-tailed horned viper contains the raw ingredients of two of the world’s most common phobias: arachnophobia (fear of spiders) and ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). The only way it could ...

The spider-tailed horned viper, a master of mimicry, uses its spider-like tail to lure unsuspecting prey in the rugged terrains of western Iran. Officially classified in 2006, this rare viper faces ...

A bag full of reptiles at an Indian airport, a rare desert snake species from the mountains of Iran and Iraq, and a traveller who smuggled them from Thailand have demonstrated the massive scale and ...

The Mumbai Airport Customs officials had detected four cases this month wherein total 284 exotics wildlife animals were being smuggled to Mumbai from Bangkok. The agency officials have arrested five ...

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