There are currently 18 to 19 families of snakes with approximately 2,950 different species. With so many snakes, both on land ...

The new species is a type of krait snake found in Southwest China and northern Myanmar and had previously been categorized as the many-banded krait (Bungarus multicinctus). However, morphological ...

In 2001, the famous herpetologist Joseph B. Slowinski died from snakebite by an immature black-and-white banded krait, while leading an expedition team in northern Myanmar. The very krait that ...

New Caledonia residents succeed in educating people to respect their sea kraits. Here a visitor drops to the ground to admire a “tricot raye” crawling ashore for a rest. “That’s OK,” she ...

Even the lengths of these snakes differ markedly from one another. But it is the banded krait that has taken the title of the longest banded snake, striking fear into the hearts of those who share ...