Scientists have described a new species of coffee snake from the cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador and revalidated the ...

An integrative taxonomic study has revealed that the Tonkin keelback, long treated as a single wide-ranging species, actually ...

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Together with a South American team, Senckenberg scientist Juan Pablo Hurtado-Gómez has described two new toadheaded pitvipers. To date, hardly anything is known about these venomous snakes, which are ...