South America

  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

  1  A southern Brazilian menace The Bothrops pitviper genus is a venomous group with over 30 confirmed species in

  1  Spotted lancehead Maximum length: 130cm. This venomous snake lives in only two countries: a swathe of northwest Ecuador

  1  A South American river bully In the watery zones of Paraguay, southern Brazil and Argentina, there exists a

  1  South America’s main branch boa The Amazon tree boa (Corallus hortulanus) is a non-venomous constrictor measuring up to