These unique variety of snakes are found only in Western Ghats of India & in Sri Lanka –both of which are hotspots in the world of biodiversity. Prior to the latest discovery, only 13 species of the ...

By Ifham Nizam For nearly a century, the Cope’s Rough-sided Snake (Aspidura copei) seemed to have vanished from the face of ...

On my many visits to Sri Lanka i have only come across two, they were both the harmless ( too humans anyway ) rat snakes, they were not in busy hotel ... We did have one in our house once but, again, ...

Most blind snakes found in Sri Lanka are about six to 10 centimetres long. Researchers found that those found in dry zones are larger than those in the wet zone. Mrs. Wickramasinghe added that the ...

the Buddhist calendar used in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka, the Dragon is replaced by the nāga. In the Gurung zodiac, the Dragon ...

A flying snake, almost extinct and known to be endemic to Sri Lanka, has been sighted in Andhra Pradesh’s Seshachalam forests, Indian forest officials and researchers said. According to researchers, ...