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In the photo, a viperine water snake is shown in shallow water with a brown trout in its mouth. The species is a non-venomous ...

A team of researchers from Gujarat, Maharashtra, the United Kingdom, and Germany have identified a new genus and species of colubrid snakes within the biodiverse Western Ghats. Their discovery has ...

Extremely rare and hidden in the forests of the Andes, there are still new snake species left to find. This has recently been evidenced by the colubrid serpent, described for the first time in the ...

THE common Brown Water Snake is a species of non-venomous, South African, colubrid snake. This gentle, harmless snake is by far the most common water snake in southern Africa. What does it look like?

The eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi) is a species of large nonvenomous colubrid snake native to the Eastern United States. It is of note as being the longest native snake species in the ...