About 33 km (20 mi) off the coast of Brazil, near the state of Sao Paulo, there’s a place so dangerous that it’s uninhabited and closed to visitors or tours. Ilha da Queimada Grande, also known as ...

About 20 miles off Brazil’s southeastern coast, there’s a 106-acre island that most people will never see in person. Ilha da Queimada Grande, part of the State of São Paulo, has earned a reputation as ...

The RattleCam is back! For the second year in a row, California Polytechnic State University and Dickinson College are live streaming a massive prairie rattlesnake den. The mega-den, which is located ...

"The highest concentration of one of the most venomous snakes in the world is located about 90 miles off the coast of Santos, Brazil, on a small, craggy chunk of otherwise uninhabitable land. It's ...

Ecology of snakes on islands / Marcio Martins and Harvey B. Lillywhite -- Isolation, dispersal, and changing sea levels : how sea kraits spread to far-flung islands / Harold Heatwole -- Terrestrial ...