"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.

The man, who has not been named, was rushed to the hospital on 26 March after his pet African Pit Viper, also called a ... the snakes – which can have fangs up to 2 inches long – are extremely ...

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 ...