Tag: India
Man Tries To Kiss Cobra, Gets Kissed Back
The video shows the man kissing the snake on its hood, when the snake decided to turn around and bite the man. [...]
13-Foot King Cobra Caught And Released In India
The king cobra is not a member of the Naja genus, which all other cobras are, but rather has its own genus, Ophiophagus, Greek for “snake eating.” [...]
New Western Himalayas Snake Species Discovered Via Instagram Post
A master’s degree student at India’s Guru Nanak Dev University (Amritsar) spent much of 2020 uploading photos to Instagram of reptiles and amphibians [...]
New Gecko Species Named After Hong Kong Movie Star Jackie Chan
Researchers have discovered a new gecko species that is so agile it was named after action star Jackie Chan.
Jackie’s day gecko (Cnemaspis jackieii [...]
New Species Of Keelback Snake Discovered In India
Researchers have described a new species of snake of the genus Rhabdophis discovered in a forested region of Northeast India. The snake, Rhabdophis bi [...]
Reptile Described As Dinosaur Confirmed A Lizard
Researchers with Barcelona's Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont have confirmed a new species of lizard of the family Oculudentavis, Ocu [...]
185-Year-Old Painting Helps ID New Indian Snake Species
An Indian snake that was first collected in the mid-19th Century and described first via snake skins in 1796, and named the banded racer (Argyrogena f [...]
New Indian Bent-Toed Gecko Species Discovered And Described
Researchers in India have discovered a new species of bent-toed gecko from the Indian province of Arunachal Pradesh. Cyrtodactylus arunachalensis is b [...]
Two-Headed Russell’s Viper Found In India
Susanta Nanda of the Indian Forest Service uploaded a video to Twitter of a two-headed Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) that was rescued in Maharasht [...]
Python Goes After Porcupine And It Doesn’t Go Too Well
Indian rock pythons eat a lot of things but porcupines are hard to swallow. Porcupines have quills for a reason, and that is to better defend themselv [...]
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