African carpet vipers, which are responsible for more human deaths from snakebites than all venomous species in Africa combined. As is the case with many other snake venoms, individual specimens ...

The venom of a West African carpet viper (Echis ocellatus) is one of the four venoms used to test the effect of the new 3D blood vessel model. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

W hen some snakes bite, they can deliver a powerful punch of toxin-filled venom that damages organ systems and can even result in death. Annually, around 400,000 snakebite victims die worldwide. One ...

Located just off the coast of Brazil, Ilha da Queimada Grande has a highly concentrated population of lethally venomous ...

What Did the Researchers Do and Find? They studied the venom glands of the carpet viper (Echis ocellatus), the most medically important snake in West Africa. They isolated expressed sequence tags ...

The saw-scaled viper's venom can have deadly consequences One of the world's deadliest snakes has been found in a container of rocks that a stonemason had ordered from India. The saw-scaled viper ...

The stamps feature the Arabian horned viper, the carpet viper, the Arabian rearfang ... of reptiles dominated by lizards on one hand and snakes on the other.