Africa is home to two deadly snakes, the black mamba and the Gaboon viper. These snakes differ in size, venom, and behavior. Gaboon vipers are heavy with cytotoxic venom. Black mambas are fast with ...

If you've never heard of the Gaboon viper, you're not alone. It doesn't make headlines the way cobras or mambas do, but this African giant quietly holds some of the most jaw-dropping titles in the ...

Scientists have identified nanostructures in the ultra-black skin markings of an African viper which they said Thursday could inspire the quest to create the ultimate light-absorbing material. The ...

From even a short distance, this West African Gaboon viper looks just like a pile of dead leaves. New research shows that the highly-camouflaged snake owes its elusiveness to nanostructures in its ...

If you're ever tromping around sub-Saharan Africa, you would be well-advised to keep an eye out for the West African Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica rhinoceros) -- that is, if you can actually see it.

The lush rainforests and savannas of sub-Saharan Africa are a place where dense forest cover and shifting shadows provide endless hiding places to one of the continent’s most lethal predators, which ...

Department of Natural Resource officers in Georgia are on the lookout for one of the deadliest snakes in the world. A woman who lives of Harrisburg Road told police that she spotted a African gaboon ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Congolese giant toad (Sclerophrys channingi) is the first toad found to mimic a harmful snake, in this case the highly venomous Gaboon viper ...

He’s no snake charmer. A 27-year-old Staten Island man was hospitalized after his illegal pet, a highly-poisonous East African gaboon viper, literally bit the hand that feeds it, police said Saturday.