Photos of poisonous snakes

Last updated: 2020-May-8

Fer de lance [costa_rica_osa_0559]

Fer de lance (Bothrops asper)

Fer de lance [costa_rica_osa_0563]

Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica)

Fer de lance [costa_rica_osa_0560]

Common death adder

World's venemous poisonous snake, the King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)

Red and green eyelash viper (Bothriechis schlegelii)

Common death adder [australia_fnq_0893]

Tropical rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus) or cascavel

Red and green eyelash viper (Bothriechis schlegelii) [costa-rica_0839]

Aruba island rattlesnake (Crotalus unicolor)

Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica)

Red and green eyelash viper (Bothriechis schlegelii) [costa-rica_0842]

Macaque monkey watching a king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) cross a road

Tropical rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus) or cascabel

Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica), the largest of the true vipers

Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica)

Aruba island rattlesnake (Crotalus unicolor)

Red spitting cobra (Naja pallida)

King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) cross a road

Aruba island rattlesnake (Crotalus unicolor)

Rhinoceros viper (Bitis rhinoceros)

Red and green eyelash viper (Bothriechis schlegelii) [costa-rica_0840]

Venemous Bothrops mattogrossensis snake

Common death adder [australia_fnq_0894]

Common death adder [australia_fnq_0906]

King cobra crossing a road in Khao Yai

Fer de lance (Bothrops asper) [local name in Belize: Yellow-jaw tommygoff]

Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica), the largest of the true vipers

Ornate cantil (Agkistrodon bilineatus taylori)

Common death adder [australia_fnq_0904]

Venemous Bothrops mattogrossensis snake [brazil_1940]

Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix)

Fer de lance (Bothrops asper) [costa_rica_osa_0554]

Common death adder [australia_fnq_0905]

Taylor's cantil (Agkistrodon bilineatus taylori)

Eyelash viper [costa-rica_a_0062]

Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica)

Egyptian cobra (Naja haje)

Asiatic cobra (Naja naja)

Fer de lance [costa_rica_osa_0562]

Red and green eyelash viper (Bothriechis schlegelii) [costa-rica_0835]

Fer de lance [costa_rica_osa_0558]

King cobra crossing a road in Khao Yai

Malayan pitviper (Calloselasma rhodostoma)

Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica)

Common death adder [australia_fnq_0895]

Eyelash viper [costa-rica_a_0060]

Fer de lance [costa_rica_osa_0561]

King cobra crossing a road in Khao Yai

Fer de lance [costa_rica_osa_0564]

Aruba island rattlesnake (Crotalus unicolor)

Tropical rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus) or cascabel

Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica)

Fer de lance (Bothrops asper) [costa_rica_osa_0555]

Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica)

Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)

Egyptian cobra (Naja haje)

Fer-de-lance snake [colombia_2216]

Tropical rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus) or cascabel

Aruba island rattlesnake (Crotalus unicolor)

Fer-de-lance snake

Eyelash viper [costa-rica_a_0061]

Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica)

Macaque monkey watching a king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) cross a road

Red and green eyelash viper seen from the ground in its typical habitat or place of rest

Red spitting cobra (Naja pallida)

Coral snake [manu_0352]

Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus)

Rhinoceros viper (Bitis gabonica rhinoceros)

Fer-de-lance snake

World's longest poisonous snake, the King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)

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