Few places in the world are more dangerous than Ilha da Queimada Grande — the Brazilian island where venomous vipers rule the land and only a few researchers are ever allowed. Despite their fearsome ...

On a small, wave-battered island, a short clip of a snake sliding across sun-bleached rock has stirred an outsized amount of curiosity. The footage is sparse on context yet rich in visual detail, ...

On a little-visited island far from major ports, researchers have documented a snake that does not match any species currently described in the scientific literature. The find is still being evaluated ...