Takeaways:
- A snake that experts had never seen before has been discovered on Instagram after a postgraduate student in Indian’s Himalayan region uploaded a photo of one he found in his backyard
- The snake belonged to a group commonly know as kukri snakes which are known for their Nepali dagger-like teeth, but this snake didn’t look like the ones commonly found in the Himalayan area
- The snake was named Oligodon churahensis after the Churah Valley in Himachal Pradesh in the western Himalayas where it was found. […]
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