The puff adder is one of the deadliest snakes in Africa, and also an expert at camouflage. Can you spot the puff adder in the accompanying image, or in the footage before the narrator zooms in?

A startling scene was caught on camera last week in South Africa’s Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park by a sightseer. Engineer Klaus Bohmer was on safari in the park when he came across something he’d never ...

New research from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has revealed that puff adders (Bitis arietans) can be highly efficient at controlling rodent populations that ...

The Puff Adder (Bitis arietans) is one of Africa's deadliest snake species, not only due to its deadly venom, but also because of its stealthy behaviour in the way that it hunts by ambushing prey. It ...

Jinjiri said that the arrests were made after the Ag. Inspector-General of the Police, Mr <strong>Mohammed Adamu </strong>inaugurated `Operation Puff Adder’ in the ...

A homeowner's fear of a puff adder under his fridge leads to a surprising discovery when a snake rescuer reveals that the 'snake' is actually a harmless cleaning tool.

Snakes are familiar, distinctive—and often feared—reptiles. And they've been around for a long time: body fossils found in the UK, Portugal and the US stretch all the way back to the late Jurassic ...

A puff adder's bite can do serious damage, even to an animal with skin as thick as a rhino's. The photographic evidence we have is not pretty. What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving? This ...