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Sri Lanka’s cultural capital of Kandy will step into the global scientific spotlight from Oct. 1 to 4, 2026, as it hosts the inaugural World Congress on Snakes (WCS 2026). Taking place at the Grand ...

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The Guns N’ Roses guitarist is a lifelong reptile lover, and formed his own rock supergroup Slash’s Snakepit in 1994 Mat Hayward/Getty Scientists discovered a new nonvenomous ground snake species in ...