Africa’s coolest pest control agents have fangs, no overheads and a killer instinct. Enter the puff adder (Bitis arietans) — ...

This is the jaw-dropping moment a cobra eats a puff adder in the middle of the road while the puff adder is still alive. Klaus Bohmer, an engineer and nature enthusiast, captured this rather rare ...

Puff adders protect African crops by eating rodents. They outcompete mammals during outbreaks and need no care.

The puff adder is the deadliest snake in Africa. With a wide distribution, common occurrence, large size (growing up to 75 inches or 190 centimeters), long fangs, and a habit of sitting silently ...

While the bite from a puff adder, one of Africa's deadliest snakes, can eventually take down a rhino, the reptiles can only strike within about 5-10 cm (about 2-4 in) in front of it, which is ...

Rodent outbreaks during high rainfall years cause millions in crop damage annually, but maintaining healthy puff adder populations could significantly reduce these losses without costly chemical ...

Rodent outbreaks during high rainfall years cause millions in crop damage annually, but maintaining healthy puff adder populations could significantly reduce these losses without costly chemical ...

The 22-year-old, who owned a venomous puff adder, was treated with anti-venom in Connolly Hospital, the Irish Post reported last month. Most commonly found in Morocco and Western Arabia ...

Tyrone Ping, author and herpetologist, posted a video on TikTok of a puff adder in its “natural habitat” at Table Mountain in Cape Town. The video of the snake basking in the sun received over ...

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. Can We Predict the Universe’s Randomness — or Is ...

The Puff Adder (bitens arietans) is one of only two highly venomous snakes found in the Vaal Triangle – the other being the Rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus) – and feeds on a massive range of ...