Current Events > A new venomous snake species was discovered in Australia.

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https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2018/07/16/New-venomous-snake-species-found-in-Australia/6791531744709/

Already home to some of the most venomous creatures in the world, northern Australia's wilderness just got a little bit more dangerous.

Scientists have discovered a new species of bandy-bandy snake, Vermicella parscauda, on a remote peninsula in Australia's Far North.

Biologists from the University of Queensland discovered the snake by chance while conducting a sea snake survey. The species is reactively small and narrow. It's scales are black with white stripes.

"Bandy-bandy is a burrowing snake, so Freek Vonk from the Naturalis Museum and I were surprised to find it on a concrete block by the sea," Bryan Fry, an associate professor at Queensland, said in a news release. "We later discovered that the snake had slithered over from a pile of bauxite rubble waiting to be loaded onto a ship."

Researchers collected and analyzed the snake and determined it was genetically and visually unique from its relatives farther inland and to the south. Field surveys yielded another specimen in its natural habitat on the Cape York Peninsula. Another snake was found on a highway, flattened by a vehicle.

Though the new species is venomous, humans are a greater threat to the small snake species than the bandy-bandy snake is to humans.
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but I mean, is the Northern Territory even really part of Australia

edit: Oh wait, they mean Far North QLD. The point remains, is FNQ even really part of Australia
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ZCheveyo posted...

Australia's wilderness just got a little bit more dangerous.

What a stupid quote
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DavidWong posted...

ut I mean, is the Northern Territory even really part of Australia

No clue, I don't know the geography of Australia....I just post articles that I find interesting.
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ZCheveyo posted...

Though the new species is venomous, humans are a greater threat to the small snake species than the bandy-bandy snake is to humans.

Humans are more dangerous to every animal though.
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Bump
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ZCheveyo posted...

"Bandy-bandy is a burrowing snake, so Freek Vonk from the Naturalis Museum and I were surprised to find it on a concrete block by the sea," Bryan Fry, an associate professor at Queensland, said in a news release. "We later discovered that the snake had slithered over from a pile of bauxite rubble waiting to be loaded onto a ship."

ZCheveyo posted...

Already home to some of the most venomous creatures in the world, northern Australia's wilderness just got a little bit more dangerous.

I don't think this person understands how discoveries work. The snake didn't suddenly pop into existence, lol
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