South America

  1  Oaxacan coral snake Maximum length: 92.5cm. A Mexican coral snake, which only has a small territory, yet is

  1  Tops the Amazon bite tables The Amazon rainforest contains dozens of venomous snakes. Entering without a torch and

  1  A rainforest river snake The Micrurus coral snake genus numbers 82 in the Americas, and is adding new members

  1  Venezuelan lancehead Maximum length: 166.7cm. The Bothrops lancehead genus is one of the largest groups of venomous snakes

  1  Hemprich’s coral snake Maximum length: 91.7cm. A little known coral snake, which is secretly one of the more

  1  A vicious non-venomous snake Most snake guidebooks will list a snake as either venomous or non-venomous, but those

  1  Argentina’s main pitviper In Argentina, there’s one venomous snake which virtually every local knows about. They know to

  1  Southern Brazil’s longest pitviper The jararacussu (Bothrops jararacussu) is a dangerously venomous snake measuring 1.5-2 metres, which ranks

  1  Guardian of Brazilian grassland In southern Brazil, there’s virtually no environment which doesn’t contain one venomous snake, except