New snake species discovered in the AmazonThe new species of green anaconda is genetically different by at least 5.5% in the northern region of South America compared to southern regions. For context, that is about the same genetic difference between humans and chimpanzees....
Both hypotheses predict that will be discovered in Mesozoic strata of South America, where it survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.Jason J. HeadMohabey , D. M. , J. J. Head , and J. A. Wilson . 2011 . A new species of the snake Madtsoia from the Upper Cretaceous of ...
You wouldn’t get many luxury handbags out ofLeptotyphlops carlae. Barely the girth of a strand of spaghetti, it is the world’s smallest snake. Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State University, discoveredL. carlaeon the island of Barbados. “I turned a small rock an...
this small snake is notable for its black collar and reddish coloration, which sets it apart from its closest relatives. Additionally, a uniformly black variant of the species, known as the ‘melanistic morphotype,’ has been discovered.Rhynchocalamus hejazicusis prevalent ...
isolation from surrounding continents. Our turtle shows that the Madagascan fauna was already unique in the Late Cretaceous: Sahonachelys mailakavava is the only representative of its group to have evolved suction-feeding, which is otherwise only known in distant relatives, so-called snake-necked ...
CLARKSTOWN, N.Y.-- A large snake has been spotted in a Rockland County lake and it is getting lots of attention from residents. The snake was seen in Congers Lake in Clarkstown. Donato Parisi, a groundskeeper at the lake, said the recently discovered snake is the most famous...
First up, we have a wonderfulpaper snake puppet printable– this is part of a large set ofChinese New Year Zodiac puppetsORJungle Puppetsor you can get it individually as JUST thePaper Snake Puppettoo!. It is super cute and so easy to make..I love that fun tongue hanging out of it’...
This game will follow the exploits of “Naked Snake”, a secret agent sent by the US government into Soviet Union territory during the Cold War. Snake’s mission is to rescue Dr. Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, a Soviet defector who is forced to create a nuclear superweapon for the USSR. What...
An international team of scientists has solved a case of mistaken identity and discovered a new species of venomous snake.
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Conservation efforts for the African forest elephant have been hindered by how little is known the large animal, according to researchers. A newly published study by a 10-member international research team, including University of Oregon biological anthropologist Nelson Ting,...