Coolest-Looking Venomous Snakes

I nominate the variable bush viper from Africa:

I don't know too much about snakes, but I saw an actual Coral Snake in Quintana Roo in February and could not help but be amazed out how breathtakingly gorgeous it was....

For a list of Snakes per state see:
http://www.geo-outdoors.info/listed_by_state.htm

Does the "variable" mean they can change color, or just that they come in a variety of colors?

They remind me of a picture I saw last week of multi-colored Easter chicks. But those were created artificially by investing dye into the shells before they hatched, while these are real. Very pretty!

The inland taipan, native of Aus!



Hi Ladyhawk, you mentioned in a post a while back you were into snakes, and I was thinking of you just two days ago when I found a snake at home. It wasn't a taipan, although I have seen one at home, it was a Red Bellied Black, which hardly rates on the deadly scale, it would take a few hours to really kill you :-)

I have a rubber coral snake right here on my desk. Damn it looks real!


"Red against yellow, kill a fellow; red against black, friend of Jack"

Sweet dreams!

My brother (not my MD brother) was fishing on the Flint River near Yellow Jacket Falls (WSW of Thomaston, Georgia) a few years back. Several canoes came down the river, paddling madly. One of the canoes had a fellow laid out unconscious in the bottom of the boat. He had been bitten, up-river, by a coral snake. The bite was on the tip of a finger. The guy was in deep labored breathing, low pulse, and other obvious (to the laymen) signs of near-death.

Someone in my brother's group had a cell phone and called 911, and explained the gravity of the situation. A medivac helicopter was dispatched, found a close-by LZ, picked the victim up, and transported him to Atlanta's Grady Hospital. He survived.

I worked at a Boy Scout camp near where the guy was bitten by the coral snake, Camp Thunder. In about 1963 we found a coral snake there. Ross Allen, the famous herpetologist, said "BS, Out of range!" My cousin, Bob Mount, professor of herpetology at Auburn said, "BS, don't listen to Ross Allen." Dr. Mount was right.

I've got to go with the Black Mamba. Sleek on the outside, the inside of its mouth is black (hence the name). For some odd reason, I think of the black mamba to be the Porsche of snakes. They are incredibly venomous yet beatiful.

bush snake

in color, but is variable) and the Eyelash viper, also variable in color.

Temple Viper



Bamboo Viper

A Caribou, that is. A USAF C-7A Caribou. Nose wheel well.