In a rare and a prestigious honour in the world of biological sciences, a newly discovered species of bronzeback snake has been named after one of Sri Lanka’s foremost herpetologists, Dr. A. A. Thasun ...

There is even wide variety within the same species – antivenom made from snakes in India is less effective against the same ...

part of the same genus of snake as those newly discovered by Kraus, is seen here on branch in Gal Oya National Parks, Sri Lanka. Three other new snake species identified Kraus also identified new ...

Check out our stories here. So far, researchers have only found one Thasun’s bronzeback snake on Maragala Mountain in southern Sri Lanka, an island country off the southeastern coast of India.

There is even wide variety within the same species – antivenom made from snakes in India is less effective against the same species in Sri Lanka. A team of researchers began searching for a type of ...