They took a closer look at the snakes and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Ovophis zhaoermii, or the Guanyinshan mountain pit viper. An Ovophis zhaoermii, or Guanyinshan ...

Hard to spot but definitely in existence in Bhutan are the Himalayan rock lizard; the Agama (males have orange heads with ... and the mountain pit vipers, which are uniformly dark with triangular ...

Pit vipers, along with several of their snake cousins, marry two senses to better locate prey at night: sight and a heat-detecting ability. Deep pits, which lie on each side of the snake's face ...