Ilha da Queimada Grande, Brazil's Snake Island, hosts rare golden lancehead vipers. These snakes are vital for biodiversity and offer medical research potential. Their venom may aid heart disease and ...
Snake Island was isolated from the Brazilian mainland at the end of the last ice age, trapping Earth's only known population of highly venomous golden lancehead pit vipers on a rock in the Atlantic.
Brazil’s Snake Island, officially Ilha da Queimada Grande, is often imagined as a realm of peril, yet its significance goes far beyond danger. This remote island is an ecological gem, home to some of ...