Meet The 4 Longest Venomous Snakes. Hint: Mamba And Bushmaster No Longer In Top 3 Due To These ‘New’ Giants
Science splits the iconic king cobra into four distinct species, reshaping our understanding of venomous snake diversity and ...
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New snake species discovered 20 years after animal's death
A mysterious snake, hidden in plain sight for decades, has finally revealed its true identity, leaving researchers both ...
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New Snake Species Discovered Hiding In Plain Sight For Decades
New species are being discovered quite often, but those discoveries aren't always made in the same way. This snake, for example, has quite the strange story.
4-foot-long predator, kept in captivity for over a decade, discovered as new species
A scientist visiting Ethiopia in the 1980s found an olive-colored predator and decided to keep it. After its death almost 20 ...
2-foot-long creature with ‘secretive’ lifestyle found in Vietnam. It’s a new species
In a darkened forest of central Vietnam, a 2-foot-long creature with “enlarged” teeth climbed through a tree. Its “secretive” ...
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To find rare snakes, we can look to the soil
Scientists have developed a new method to monitor the elusive eastern indigo snake using environmental DNA (eDNA) from soil ...
Genetic material in soil can indicate rare snake's presence
Scientists have developed a new method to monitor the elusive eastern indigo snake, the longest native snake in the United ...