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A video circulating on social media shows a man approaching the huge python instead of staying away from it. According to claims accompanying the video, the man is a software professional. In the footage, he can be seen getting close…
A ladder rescue in northeastern Bangladesh ended safely for a rat snake after it spent about three days unable to climb out of a disused well. On October 3, a rat snake was removed from a disused well at Sajal Saotal's…
"Pythons are among the protected wildlife species, catching them and displaying them in a public place is a serious issue," district forest officer (DFO) Dr Harendra Singh said. City CO Prakhar Pandey said police and cyber teams are working to…
A new species of giant groundsnake, Atractus paulus, has been described from the Peruvian Andes after researchers showed that specimens long misidentified as Atractus gigas are distinguished by apical pits and other morphological characters.
The species epithet adleri is a patronymic honoring Dr. Kraig Adler, Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, in recognition of his outstanding support to the international herpetological community and his remarkable scientific contribution to Asian herpetology. The researchers suggest the common…
A comprehensive genetic and morphological revision has split the iconic eyelash palm-pitviper into ten distinct species, including five new to science and three resurrected from nineteenth-century names.
Scientists have described a new species of coffee snake from the cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador and revalidated the long-lost name Ninia schmidti, removing the Variable Coffee Snake from Ecuador's herpetofaunal list in the process.
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GNR officers rescued a snake that became trapped in protective netting in Ponte de Lima, in the northern district of Viana do Castelo. The rescue was carried out by officers from the local GNR Territorial Post, according to a statement…
An integrative taxonomic study has revealed that the Tonkin keelback, long treated as a single wide-ranging species, actually comprises two species, including a newly described snake endemic to China's Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.