The country continues to surprise the scientific community with its biodiversity and the availability of new, unknown species ...

Scientists led by P. Gowri Shankar has revealed that the king cobra is not one species. He found that there are four distinct ...

The national reptile of India is the King Cobra. Explore its habitat, venomous facts, and conservation status in 2026.

Two species of rare keelback snakes were first reported by the scientists of the Wildlife Institute of India in Northeast India, because of which the snakes were previously known in Myanmar. This ...

The dense forests of Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh form part of a larger biodiversity hotspot that extends into Myanmar, ...

In and around the streams of northeastern India, a new species of snake was discovered. Photo by J.C. Lalmuanawma via Muansanga et al (2025) Taprobanica From sharp-toothed sharks to spiders a bit too ...

King cobras are spreading to different parts of India by hitching rides on some of the country’s busiest railway networks, a new study has found. The Western Ghats king cobra (Ophiophagus kaalinga), a ...

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A species of snake has been noted biting and injecting venom into humans after the snake is dead. Getty Images/iStock Photo As darkness descended on a man’s chicken coops in Sivasagar, India, he ...