Two recently-arrived Mangshan pit vipers, one of the world’s rarest and most colorful species of snake, are just a subway ride away in the Bronx. The new hatchlings were born this past Aug. 7 at ...

There are between 300 and 500 Mangshan pit vipers in the wild, and the species was included on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species in 1996. Their ...

April 8, 2021 / 4:55 PM MDT / CBS Colorado DENVER (CBS4) - A Mangshan pit viper that lives at the Denver Zoo had to take a trip to the veterinarian's office and wasn't too happy about it.

Lemurs that survive only in Madagascar, snakes that hunt with and solitary Indian rhinos. These are just some of the rare species visitors can see at the Pilsen Zoo.

Comparing the results with those of the first national survey launched in 1995, Yan said, researchers found that two species, the Central Asian tortoise and Mangshan pit viper, had dwindled in ...