Senior science adviser Dr Karen Middlemiss said they became aware of the blue-lipped sea krait earlier this week when a member of the public came across it while walking his dog. “Our rangers ...

Senior science adviser Dr Karen Middlemiss said they became aware of the blue-lipped sea krait earlier this week when a member of the public came across it while walking his dog. “Our rangers ...

If you live in southern Asia, the common krait (Bungarus caeruleus) is a nocturnal predator that poses significant danger to unsuspecting humans. Native to the Indian subcontinent, this snake’s ...

They then injected groups of mice with the winner and with venom from one of three types of elapid: black mambas, many-banded kraits and monocellate cobras. All survived. Professor Baker’s ...

Can eat Asian rat snakes, dhamans, pythons, Indian cobras, kraits, and small king cobras. Unique traits Better eyesight than most snakes, can see a moving person from 330 feet (100 meters).

This unique group comprises two distinct evolutionary branches: the actual sea snakes (subfamily Hydrophiinae), kin to Australian terrestrial elapids, and the sea kraits (subfamily Laticaudinae), ...