The seven venomous snakes found in Sri Lanka are the Russell's Viper (thith polonga), Saw-scaled Viper (weli polonga), Hump-nosed Viper (kuna katuwa or polon thelissa), Cobra (nagaya), Common Krait ...

A large snake slithered onto a Lanka Premier League game in Colombo, Sri Lanka, bringing play to a halt. The reptile, believed to be a non-venomous rat snake, was ushered off the grounds before ...

In a rare and a prestigious honour in the world of biological sciences, a newly discovered species of bronzeback snake has been named after one of Sri Lanka’s foremost herpetologists, Dr. A. A. Thasun ...

Check out our stories here. So far, researchers have only found one Thasun’s bronzeback snake on Maragala Mountain in southern Sri Lanka, an island country off the southeastern coast of India.