Above: Naja ashei. Photo courtesy Widlife Digest’s Anthony Child Africa’s Naja ashei snake has been identified as a new snake species and it is the largest spitting cobra according to scientists at the conservation nonprofit WildlifeDirect. Announced officially on December 7, 2007, blood and tissue samples helped confirm that these massive, aggressive, extremely venomous snakes [...]

Above: Pecari maximus photo courtesy of Mark Van Roosmalen and Copyright by Roland Gockel Nature is constantly amazing us with new discoveries. Recent news in the animal world is that a new species of peccary has been “discovered” by Dutch scientist Marc van Roosmalen. Pecari maximus is about the size of a large dog. It [...]