A North African viper glides across the sand. A man in San Marino was bitten by such a specimen, which he was keeping as a pet. Banu R/Getty The snake, also known as the Saharan horned viper ...

named the recently discovered and spectacularly colored viper from a remote area of the East African country for his little girl. The striking black-and-yellow snake is called Matilda's horned ...

Matilda’s Horned Viper was discovered in a small patch of ... Only three new vipers have been discovered across Africa in the last three decades, making the find rare and important.

Horned viper inhabits deserts and semi-arid regions of North Africa and the Middle East. It is a rather small snake, with the average body length of just around 30-60 centimeters. Horned viper is ...

the desert horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) appears as if it is from a nightmare. Native to the hot deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, this snake's coarse, sand-painted scales enable it ...

Matilda's Horned Viper was discovered in a small patch of ... Only three new vipers have been discovered across Africa the last three decades, making the find rare and important.

and two North African snakes, the Saharan horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) and the Saharan sand viper (Cerastes vipera). Researchers compared the collected skins to the Mexican lance-headed ...