‘Highly venomous’ mountain creature found lurking in Thailand. It’s a new species

[webfact]

Two Bungarus sagittatus, or barbed arrow kraits.

 

On a mountain in Thailand, a “highly venomous” creature moved through the darkened forest. The 3-foot-long creature had brightly colored stripes that usually served as a warning for anyone who dared approach it — but that warning failed.

 

Scientists managed to capture the venomous animal and discovered it was a new species.

 

Researchers ventured into Khao Krachom mountain on several wildlife surveys in 2022, according to a study published Jan. 30 in the peer-reviewed journal Zoosystematics and Evolution.

 

Searching the forest, researchers encountered several black-and-white striped snakes, the study said. Taking a closer look at the animals, researchers realized they’d discovered a new species: Bungarus sagittatus, or the barbed arrow krait.

 

Kraits “are a group of highly venomous snakes” found primarily in Asia, the study said.

Barbed arrow kraits can reach about 3 feet in length, the study said. They have “smooth” scales, “small” eyes and a “relatively long” tail.

 

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[WHansen]

And they tasted like chicken

[flyingtlger]

57 minutes ago, webfact said:

They have “smooth” scales, “small” eyes and a “relatively long” tail.

Sounds like my ex......

[toofarnorth]

Why creature , why not say snake ?

[dinsdale]

24 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

Why creature , why not say snake ?

Chat GPT decided creature. The sentence is just rediculuos.

On a mountain in Thailand, a “highly venomous” creature moved through the darkened forest.

[NorthernRyland]

Next species to be hunted to extinction in Thailand. Besides birds I'm lucky to even see a squirrel here.

[Foxx]

"The 3-foot-long creature had brightly colored stripes", "researchers encountered several black-and-white striped snakes".  Which is it? Are they brightly coloured (and it's a black and white photo), or are they monochrome?

[dingdongrb]

9 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

Next species to be hunted to extinction in Thailand. Besides birds I'm lucky to even see a squirrel here.

I am guessing you do not live in the Banwangtan mooban then. Many squirrels roam the large trees there and then the bold one like to play on the electrical lines.

 

This was one of the unlucky ones. Power was out for a few hours.

 

 

[Morch]

10 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

Next species to be hunted to extinction in Thailand. Besides birds I'm lucky to even see a squirrel here.

 

Where is 'here'?

 

We live in a village in central Thailand. Quite urbanized by now, plus minutes from the highway. 

 

Birds, squirrels, snakes, monitors, smaller sized lizards, rats of two kinds, the odd mongoose (at night), a whole lot of insects and bugs (some rather exotic for a foreigner). Less often (sadly), a flock of cranes, and sometimes a bird of prey (one of them weirdly attached to me, for some reason).

 

Then there are all them domesticated (or supposedly so) beings - people, dogs, cats, birds (winged or on motorcycles), cows, chickens etc.

[dingdongrb]

16 minutes ago, Morch said:

 

Where is 'here'?

I'm guessing Chiang Mai since that is where his profile location states...... thus my reference to Banwangtan.

[Morch]

7 minutes ago, dingdongrb said:

I'm guessing Chiang Mai since that is where his profile location states...... thus my reference to Banwangtan.

 

Yeah, should have looked.

But then again, not all that familiar with Chiang Mai, so wouldn't know which area is which. My guess would have been that there would be more 'wildlife' about, but maybe that's just a misguided (domestic) tourist's perception.

[mikebell]

Just when I thought it was safe to go in the garden!

[uttradit]

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

Chat GPT decided creature. The sentence is just rediculuos.

On a mountain in Thailand, a “highly venomous” creature moved through the darkened forest.

The spelling of ridiculous is more concerning

[Pique Dard]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Scientists managed to capture the venomous animal and discovered it was a new species.

...new spieces! but i have no  intention to say welcome to them, for sure!

[garygooner]

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

Why creature , why not say snake ?

Agreed, but creature will get more views. 

Btw:  nice snake!  

[4MyEgo]

2 hours ago, toofarnorth said:

Why creature , why not say snake ?

 

Click bait....got us all.

[bubblegum]

37 minutes ago, uttradit said:

The spelling of ridiculous is more concerning

I hate spelling police. Not everybody has English as his first language get that in your head !

[kingstonkid]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Two Bungarus sagittatus, or barbed arrow kraits.

 

On a mountain in Thailand, a “highly venomous” creature moved through the darkened forest. The 3-foot-long creature had brightly colored stripes that usually served as a warning for anyone who dared approach it — but that warning failed.

 

Scientists managed to capture the venomous animal and discovered it was a new species.

 

Researchers ventured into Khao Krachom mountain on several wildlife surveys in 2022, according to a study published Jan. 30 in the peer-reviewed journal Zoosystematics and Evolution.

 

Searching the forest, researchers encountered several black-and-white striped snakes, the study said. Taking a closer look at the animals, researchers realized they’d discovered a new species: Bungarus sagittatus, or the barbed arrow krait.

 

Kraits “are a group of highly venomous snakes” found primarily in Asia, the study said.

Barbed arrow kraits can reach about 3 feet in length, the study said. They have “smooth” scales, “small” eyes and a “relatively long” tail.

 

Aspen Pflughoeft

 

Full story: MIAMI HERALD-Yahoo 2024-02-03

 

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Glad you showed a ic I thought yo met @Stoner

[dinsdale]

49 minutes ago, uttradit said:

The spelling of ridiculous is more concerning

Alas it's Saturday. Brain's a bit foggy. Thank you though for your pedanticism. 

[jollyhangmon]

22 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

I hate spelling police. Not everybody has English as his first language get that in your head !

 

... never mind, makes no difference really ... rather the opposite actually as most of the mischtakes in grammar (sic!) are made by so called natural English speakers, mate.

 

[billd766]

29 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

I hate spelling police. Not everybody has English as his first language get that in your head !

I call them grammar nasties.

 

They always want to feel superior to everybody else.

 

If you can read and understand what is written, that is good enough.

 

No one is perfect, though the nasties always believe that they are.

[brianthainess]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

and a “relatively long” tail.

 

[silent]

1 hour ago, uttradit said:

The spelling of ridiculous is more concerning

Not likely their (they're) fault that  it's (its) the English language should be ridiculed, or at least spoken so ridiculous might not be rediculous 

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, dingdongrb said:

I am guessing you do not live in the Banwangtan mooban then. Many squirrels roam the large trees there and then the bold one like to play on the electrical lines.

 

This was one of the unlucky ones. Power was out for a few hours.

 

 

I prefer mine medium rare.

[IAMHERE]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

I prefer mine medium rare.

Stew is the way to go with squirrels.

[dingdongrb]

3 hours ago, Morch said:

My guess would have been that there would be more 'wildlife' about, but maybe that's just a misguided (domestic) tourist's perception.

Most of the 'wildlife' in Thailand is the two legged version.

[dingdongrb]

51 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

Stew is the way to go with squirrels.

Having tasted nearly every form of wild game in the USA I can surely say that squirrel is not high on my list of favorites. In fact squirrel and groundhog were the two things I liked to hunt and when I was successful I fed what was killed to my dogs.

[Grumpy one]

Until today I thought all snakes slithered.

But thanks to this intrepid reporter I found out they lurk.

This has added to my vast wealth of useless information, I thank you.

[FruitPudding]

2 minutes ago, Grumpy one said:

Until today I thought all snakes slithered.

 

I see you haven't read the Bible.

 

2 minutes ago, Grumpy one said:

But thanks to this intrepid reporter I found out they lurk.

This has added to my vast wealth of useless information, I thank you.

 

Well, lurking isn't a movement. I suppose they can lurk, if they are mentally capable of it.

[soalbundy]

4 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Chat GPT decided creature. The sentence is just rediculuos.

On a mountain in Thailand, a “highly venomous” creature moved through the darkened forest.

Not just moving......it was lurking.