The community was permitted to catch around 13,000 snakes annually but of late, the state forest department prevented the community from catching snakes and reduced the numbers to 5,000 which affected ...

New species of finless eel discovered, Apterichtus kanniyakumari, off the coast of Tamil Nadu, revealing hidden biodiversity.

With around 58,000 human deaths from snakebites each year in the country, a lot more must be done to save lives Kamala Thiagarajan, Undark An Indian cobra found in the farmlands of Kanchipuram, India.

(Salutations to Lord Shiva, the serene one, the remover of all diseases, the Lord of all beings and master of serpents.) From the earliest pages of Indian tradition, snakes have been seen both as ...