Snakes
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Snake on a train line: Japan’s busiest bullet train route brought to a halt
Outage occurred between Maibara and Gifu-Hashima stations after the snake appeared to have climbed an electric…
- Animals, Bangladesh, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Farming, Global development, Snakes, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
Snakes beware: reptiles targeted across Bangladesh after rise in sightings of Russell’s viper
Misinformation and online rumours stoke fear of the venomous species, which has led to snakes being killed ind…
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Man in China caught smuggling 100 live snakes in his trousers
Traveller stopped by customs as he sought to slip out of Hong Kong into the border city of ShenzhenA man has b…
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Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India
Scientists estimate Vasuki indicus was up to 15m long, weighed a tonne and would have constricted its preyFoss…
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Case of the mystery sea snakes: why are reptiles washing up on New Zealand’s shores?
A famously snake-free country, Aotearoa and its beaches are wrangling with the sporadic arrival of yellow-bell…
- Animals, Conservation, Environment, Global development, Global health, Health, India, Mobile phones, Snakes, South and Central Asia, Technology, Wildlife, World news
‘Like Uber for snake emergencies’: tech takes the sting out of bites in rural India
Venomous snakebites cause tens of thousands of deaths each year. But homegrown apps are coming to the rescue –…