Science news articles about 'new snake'

... world's smallest species of snake, with adults averaging just under four inches in length, ... August 2008 in the journal Zootaxa. Hedges found the new snake -- a type of threadsnake -- in a tiny forest ...

... Natural History, unearthed fossil remains of a new snake species named Titanoboa cerrejonensis. ... ago. Jason Head, the lead author of the new species description in the journal Nature, is a research ...

A U.K. team has found several species that may be new to science in a Mozambique mountain range that had no previous record of exploration. Video.