"Because the Gaboon Viper has the longest fangs of any snake in the world and it is capable of injecting huge quantities of its toxic venom when it bites, many of these predators likely avoid the ...

The Gaboon viper is the heaviest venomous snake in Africa, stretching up to six feet and weighing as much as 25 pounds. With a broad, leaf-shaped head and patterns that look like dead leaves and ...

Nature’s puncturing tools are staggeringly ubiquitous, and a new paper in Biology Letters reveals how some are so much sharper than others by examining the sharpest ones around: viper fangs.

April 17 (UPI) --In an effort to figure out which physical characteristics best correlate with puncturing performance, scientists chose to study the sharpness of viper fangs. "Viper fangs are a ...

Dial 911. If the snake heads north, you go south. Gaboon viper facts: Their fangs are some two inches, the longest fangs of any venomous snake. They stretch four to seven feet long and weigh 18 to ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A team that studies how biological structures such as cactus spines and mantis shrimp appendages puncture living tissue has turned its attention to viper fangs. Specifically ...