For more than 150 years, every pit viper found coiled among the rocks of the Himalaya and Hindu Kush was filed under one name ...
DNA from a 160-year-old museum snake specimen revealst the Himalayan pit viper is five separate species, including three new ...
To gain a better perspective, the team studied the genomes of 65 snake species from 22 families, from 3,100 locations, and then added the genetic data they produced to existing DNA data from 434 more ...
Using pickled snakes collected decades ago and stored in an underground bunker of collections, scientists have found ways to get DNA samples from specimens previously considered near-impossible to get ...