Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History researchers announced today that they have discovered and described a new species of burrowing snake from Vietnam’s Ha Giang province. The snake, Achalinus zugorum, named in honor of George Zug, the Smithsonian’s retired curator of reptiles and amphibians and his wife, Patricia Zug, is from a genus of snakes … Continue reading New Species Of Odd-Scaled Snake Discovered In Vietnam