Police urged residents not to approach the extremely venomous snake, but to report sightings.

COLUMN. First described in 2006, an Iranian viper has an astonishing tail capable of fooling even the sharpest eyes. Scientists have now announced that the mystery does not lie in its skeleton.

While on a field trip in Thailand with his colleagues, researcher Colin Strine of Sakaerat Environmental Research Station in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, was met with one of Nature’s fake-out moments.

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