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 w ...

The Gaboon viper is the largest of its kind in all of Africa at more than 6 feet long and 45 pounds. It’s got the longest fangs of any snake in the world and a potentially fatal bite.

A woman who lives of Harrisburg Road told police that she spotted a African gaboon viper slithering along the street earlier this month.

Gaboon vipers have the longest fangs out of any snake in the world at up to 1.6 inches long, and they use these sharp chompers of theirs to inject extremely poisonous venom into their prey, which ...

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 ...

Gaboon vipers' real claims to fame are their extraordinary long fangs — the longest of any snake, said Savitzky. Gaboon vipers' fangs can be up to 2 inches (5 cm) long.

To highlight their deadliness, in previous research, scientists have shown that habituated monkeys in West Africa—which ignore most snakes—can recognize Gaboon vipers from a great distance and ...