American and Vietnamese scientists were researching biodiversity in the jungles and mountains of Vietnam when they stumbled upon a strange-looking snake. It was dark and iridescent, its scales ...

A team of U.S. and Vietnamese scientists discovered a new species of odd-scaled burrowing snakes in northern Vietnam The snake, named Achalinus zugorum, has dark and iridescent scales that shift ...

But the slightly iridescent animal ... coloring, scale pattern and other subtle physical features. The team also discovered a second new species of house snake in Ethiopia.

American and Vietnamese scientists were researching biodiversity in the jungles and mountains of Vietnam when they stumbled upon a strange-looking snake. It was dark and iridescent, its scales ...

But the slightly iridescent animal turned out to be a new species. Jakob Hallermann and Oliver Hawlitschek decided to try to sort out a “common” yet often misidentified group of snakes known ...