DiCaprio's snail-eating snake (Sibon irmelindicaprioae). This snake has an alternating striped cream and dark brown underbelly and alternating stripes of tan and dark brown on top. It also has a set ...

NORFOLK, Va.—Julie Ray from Chippewa Falls, Wis., started out studying insects. But when she was a college freshman, the macular degeneration that made her mostly blind in the right eye struck her ...

Scientists have discovered a new snake species in the highlands of western Panama. The scientific name of the conspicuously colored reptile Sibon noalamina means "no to the mine." It was chosen to ...

When Catawba College student Tabitha Turenchalk of Sheffield Lake, Ohio, left for a summer internship in El Copè, Panama on June 29, she was planning to research sloths. But when a week passed and she ...

While scientists increasingly name new species after celebrities in order to gain much-needed attention for the world’s vanishing biodiversity, researchers describing a new snake species from Panama ...

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*Thank you for the warning regarding the snake pictures in Sunday’s Good Life. I have a serious ophidiophobia condition and truly appreciate your understanding. *Janet, Poquoson: Your warning about ...