LAWRENCE — A new University of Kansas genomic investigation of a group of unheralded but unique “mud snakes” from Southeast Asia is rewriting the evolutionary history of this family, named the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A smooth-scaled creature pregnant with 12 babies slithered through a wetland in a forest in Vietnam — straight into a fishing net ...

Mud snakes (family Homalopsidae) live in wetlands across Southeast Asia. Their habitats include natural swamps and open lands flooded during the rainy season, typically rice paddies. Scientists of the ...

A University of Kansas study of rice paddy snakes in Southeast Asia gives key details to their diversification and natural history, adding molecular evidence that the rise of the Khorat Plateau and ...

A new species of mud snake was found after specimens were caught from a rubber plantation and a forest wetland in Vietnam. Photo by Nguyen SN, Le MV, Lathrop A, Vo T-D-H, Murphy RW, Che J from ...