The groundbreaking discovery was made official in a study published in the open-access journal Evolutionary Systematics. The post Five dazzling new species of eyelash vipers discovered in Colombia and Ecuador first appeared on Blog ..read more

Found by biologist Alejandro Arteaga, this species lives in coffee plantations and is endemic to northwestern Ecuador The post New coffee snake species discovered in Ecuador’s cloud forests first appeared on Blog ..read more

Five new drop-dead-gorgeous tree-dwelling snake species were discovered in the jungles of Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama. The post DiCaprio and Sheth name new species of tree-dwelling snakes threatened by mining first appeared on Blog ..read more

The small number of collected samples, coupled with the animals’ curious skull structure and anomalous ecology, has puzzled scientists for decades. The post Interview: description of two African shovel-snout snakes from Angola first appeared on Blog ..read more

The new snakes, which are small and cylindrical, were named in honor of institutions or people supporting the exploration of remote cloud forests in the tropics. The post Three new species of ground snakes discovered under graveyards and churches in Ecuador first appeared on Blog ..read more

While 2021 may have been a stressful and, frankly, strange year, in the world of biodiversity there has been plenty to celebrate! Out of the many new species we published in our journals this year, we’ve curated a selection of the 10 most spectacular discoveries. The world hides amazing creatures just waiting to be found … The post A year of biodiversity: Top 10 new species of 2021 from Pensoft journals, Part 2 first appeared on Blog ..read more

With 2022 round the corner, we thought we'd start off the celebrations by looking back to some the most memorable discoveries of 2021. And what a year it has been! Many new species made their debuts on the pages of Pensoft journals - here's our selection of the most exciting animals, plants and fungi that we published in 2021. The post A year of biodiversity: Top 10 new species of 2021 from Pensoft journals, Part 1 first appeared on Blog ..read more

Two new species of venomous snakes were just added to Asia’s fauna – the Nujiang pit viper from Tibet, and the Glacier pit viper found west of the Nujiang River and Heishui, Sichuan. The post Two new pit vipers discovered from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau first appeared on Blog ..read more

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 caused his death is now confirmed to belong to the same species identified as a new to science venomous snake, following an examination of samples collected … The post New deadly snake from Asia named after character from Chinese myth ‘Legend of White Snake’ first appeared on Blog ..read more

Guest blog post by Henrik Bringsøe In September 2020, we reported the first evidence for a newly discovered behaviour in snakes, as we provided extensive photographic documentation, demonstrating a macabre feeding strategy of Asian kukri snakes of the species Oligodon fasciolatus, the Small-banded Kukri Snake: a snake cutting open the abdomen of a toad, inserting … The post Guest blog post: Unique feeding behaviour of Asian kukri snakes gutting frogs and toads first appeared on Blog ..read more