EditorialPurple morning star (Tragopogon porrifolius) and scabiosa, 1. Vipers Kruijd. 2. Scabieuse. / 1. Scorsonera. 2. Scabiosa. / 1. Scorzonere. 2. Scabieuse. (title on object), Purple morning star, also called boxing beard or white salsify, and red scabiosa....
EditorialAmphibians and reptiles: vipers, adders, crawlers, tree frogs, salamanders, 1. The Souterklappers, 2. The adder, 3. The grass snake, 4. The slow-worm, 5. The tree frog, 6. The salamander, Plate II, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz: Abbildungen aus der Naturgesch...
EditorialRegner, King of the Danes, imprisoned and thrown into a pit with vipers, Print marked upper right: Fol: 80, king, snakes: viper, pit, hole, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1687, paper, etching, h 132 mm ? w 76 mm.
EditorialA Basilisk, Snakes, Vipers, Unknown, England, about 1250 - 1260, Pen-and-ink drawings tinted with body color and translucent washes on parchment, Leaf: 21 x 15.7 cm (8 1/4 x 6 3/16 in.).
EditorialVipera ammodytes, Print, Vipera ammodytes (other common names include horned viper, long-nosed viper, nose-horned viper, sand viper) is a viper species found in southern Europe through to the Balkans and parts of the Middle East. It is reputed to be th...
EditorialVipera ammodytes, Print, Vipera ammodytes (other common names include horned viper, long-nosed viper, nose-horned viper, sand viper) is a viper species found in southern Europe through to the Balkans and parts of the Middle East. It is reputed to be th...
EditorialHeterodon rhinostoma, Print, Heterodon is a genus of harmless colubrid snakes endemic to North America. They are stout with upturned snouts and are perhaps best known for their characteristic threat displays. Three species are currently recognized.Memb...
EditorialVipera arenicola, Print, Vipera is a genus of venomous vipers. It has a very wide range, being found from North Africa to just within the Arctic Circle and from Great Britain to Pacific Asia. The name is possibly derived from the Latin words vivus and ...
EditorialVipera ammodytes, Print, Vipera ammodytes (other common names include horned viper, long-nosed viper, nose-horned viper, sand viper) is a viper species found in southern Europe through to the Balkans and parts of the Middle East. It is reputed to be th...
EditorialVipera elegans, Print, Russell's viper (Daboia russelii) is a species of venomous snake in the family Viperidae of venomous Old World vipers. It is found in Asia throughout the Indian subcontinent, much of Southeast Asia, southern China and Taiwan. The...
EditorialGaleodes, Print, Galeodes is a genus of solifuges or sun spiders. The nearly 200 species in this genus are found in northern Africa, southeastern Europe and Asia. Like other solifuges, they are mainly nocturnal and found in arid habitats. They often ha...
EditorialCrotalus miliarius, Print, Sistrurus miliarius, commonly called the pygmy rattlesnake, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Crotalinae (pit vipers) of the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to the Southeastern United States. Three subs...
EditorialVipera redii, Print, Vipera is a genus of venomous vipers. It has a very wide range, being found from North Africa to just within the Arctic Circle and from Great Britain to Pacific Asia. The name is possibly derived from the Latin words vivus and pari...
EditorialVipera acanthophis, Print, Vipera is a genus of venomous vipers. It has a very wide range, being found from North Africa to just within the Arctic Circle and from Great Britain to Pacific Asia. The name is possibly derived from the Latin words vivus an...
EditorialGaleodes, Print, Galeodes is a genus of solifuges or sun spiders. The nearly 200 species in this genus are found in northern Africa, southeastern Europe and Asia. Like other solifuges, they are mainly nocturnal and found in arid habitats. They often ha...
EditorialVipera nigra, Print, Vipera is a genus of venomous vipers. It has a very wide range, being found from North Africa to just within the Arctic Circle and from Great Britain to Pacific Asia. The name is possibly derived from the Latin words vivus and pari...
EditorialCrotalus miliarius, Print, Sistrurus miliarius, commonly called the pygmy rattlesnake, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Crotalinae (pit vipers) of the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to the Southeastern United States. Three subs...
EditorialVipera ammodytes, Print, Vipera ammodytes (other common names include horned viper, long-nosed viper, nose-horned viper, sand viper) is a viper species found in southern Europe through to the Balkans and parts of the Middle East. It is reputed to be th...
EditorialVipera elegans, Print, Russell's viper (Daboia russelii) is a species of venomous snake in the family Viperidae of venomous Old World vipers. It is found in Asia throughout the Indian subcontinent, much of Southeast Asia, southern China and Taiwan. The...
EditorialVipera echis, Print, Vipera is a genus of venomous vipers. It has a very wide range, being found from North Africa to just within the Arctic Circle and from Great Britain to Pacific Asia. The name is possibly derived from the Latin words vivus and pari...
EditorialVipera haemachates, Print, Vipera is a genus of venomous vipers. It has a very wide range, being found from North Africa to just within the Arctic Circle and from Great Britain to Pacific Asia. The name is possibly derived from the Latin words vivus an...
EditorialTrimeresurus ophiophagus, Print, Trimeresurus is a genus of venomous pit vipers found in Asia from the Indian Subcontinent throughout Southeast Asia, China and the Pacific Islands. Currently at least 32 species are recognized.Common names include Asian...
EditorialColuber russellii, Print, Russell's viper (Daboia russelii) is a species of venomous snake in the family Viperidae of venomous Old World vipers. It is found in Asia throughout the Indian subcontinent, much of Southeast Asia, southern China and Taiwan. ...
EditorialCrotalus miliarius, Print, Sistrurus miliarius, commonly called the pygmy rattlesnake, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Crotalinae (pit vipers) of the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to the Southeastern United States. Three subs...
EditorialVipera acanthophis, Print, Vipera is a genus of venomous vipers. It has a very wide range, being found from North Africa to just within the Arctic Circle and from Great Britain to Pacific Asia. The name is possibly derived from the Latin words vivus an...
EditorialPath Near the Pond of Vipers, Fontainebleau Forest, c. 1860s. Narcisse Diaz de la Pe?a (French, 1807-1876). Oil on wood panel; unframed: 26.7 x 36.2 cm (10 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.).
EditorialBas-de-page scene of two vipers (depicted as quadrupeds); the male viper is inserting his snout into the mouth of the female, who bites it off and thus conceives her young. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?...
Editorial(Upper miniature) A sawfish, a winged sea-monster, races against a ship in full sail in an attempt to overtake and becalm it. Text above and below. (Lower miniature) Vipers (vipera) mating with the male putting his head into the female's mouth, and giv...
EditorialA Basilisk, Snakes, Vipers; Unknown; England, Europe; about 1250 - 1260; Pen-and-ink drawings tinted with body color and translucent washes on parchment; Leaf: 21 x 15.7 cm (8 1/4 x 6 3/16 in.).
EditorialJersey vipers bugloss, Echium italicum, Pale viper's bugloss, Echium vulgare. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hundred Additional Plant...
EditorialCommon vipers bugloss, Echium vulgare. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hundred Additional Plants, Principally from Sir John Hill," by ...
EditorialStele of the serpent-goddess Meresger, adored by a woman named Tarekhan, and accompanied by small vipers. 19th dynasty, 1295-1186 BCE Painted limestone, H: 24,5 cm Inv. E 13084.