Tag: Snake

A shadow snake has been rediscovered in Ecuador after 54 years

In the rainforests of Ecuador, researchers found a rare snake that hasn’t been seen in 54 years, known as a shadow snake for its dark colour and cautious nature Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2269267-a-shadow-snake-has-been-rediscovered-in-ecuador-after-54-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

ExamSoft Flags One-Third of California Bar Exam Test Takers For Cheating

The California Bar released data last week confirming that during its use of ExamSoft for the October Bar exam, over one-third of the nearly nine-thousand online examinees were flagged by the software. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is concerned that the exam proctoring software is incorrectly flagging students for cheating “due either to the software’s technical failures or to its requirements that…

The Curse of the Buried Treasure

Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune — but it became a nightmare. From a report:
Leominster, in the West Midlands area of England, is an ancient market town where the past and the present are jumbled together like coins in a change purse. Shops housed in half-timbered sixteenth-century Tudor buildings face the main square, offering cream…

Lizards that lost their legs re-evolved them as the climate got wetter

The snake-like lizards of the Brachymeles genus began with four legs, lost them about 62 million years ago, and then 20 million years later regained them to deal with a wetter climate Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2259415-lizards-that-lost-their-legs-re-evolved-them-as-the-climate-got-wetter/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Two-headed snake discovered in a Florida home

State wildlife officials have revealed the discovery of a rare snake with two heads at a woman’s house. The unusual reptile – a southern black racer -… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/340118/two-headed-snake-discovered-in-a-florida-home…

Python tried to eat sleeping woman while being tracked by biologists

A biologist tracking a 4-metre-long python in Australia warned local residents to be on their guard – but one woman woke to find the snake trying to eat her Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2257583-python-tried-to-eat-sleeping-woman-while-being-tracked-by-biologists/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…