This gruesome behavior was previously unknown in snakes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Pity the toads that encounter Asian ...

For knife-toothed kukri snakes, the tastiest parts of a frog are its organs, preferably sliced out of the body cavity and eaten while the frog is still alive. After observing this grisly habit for the ...

While the majority of snakes would normally swallow their prey whole, the Small-banded Kukri Snake seems to have evolved a particularly macabre feeding habit that has never before been witnessed in a ...

Biologists in Thailand have documented a behavior never seen before in snakes, in which the limbless reptiles eviscerated and consumed the organs of living toads. Snakes, as a general rule, swallow ...

Researchers have published a new paper describing the downright vicious way kukri snakes take down some of their prey—in this case, Asian black-spotted toads. The kukri, who uses specialized teeth to ...

Intrigued by a photo shared on Instagram, a research team from India discovered a previously unknown species of kukri snake. Staying at home in Chamba because of the COVID-19 lockdown, Virendar K.

The red coral kukri (Oligodon kheriensis) is endemic to a small region of the Himalayan tracts of northern India and Nepal; the snake species was first spotted in Uttar Pradesh in India in 1936. For ...

Researchers have published a new paper describing the downright vicious way kukri snakes take down some of their prey—in this case, Asian black-spotted toads. The kukri, who uses specialized teeth to ...