Pictures: New Ruby-Eyed Pit Viper Discovered (Vietnam)

National Geographic ^ | March 28, 2011 | Brian Handwerk

[Jack Hammer]

He does, but he left it in Hawaii and no one can find it.

[allmendream]

If you want to divide people up into just three groups, for whatever reason, but you want to do it based upon ACTUAL DATA - the three groups would be Africans, Eurasians (All Europeans, All North Asians, all Indians and all Amerindians), and Islanders (Thai, Polynesian, etc). But that is not the grouping you still seem to prefer (even after being confronted with contrary data). No, you seem to want to lump in the Islanders with the Asians - even though the Asians are more related to Caucasians than they are to an Islander.

[Red Badger]

I would rather we all be considered just people than slots on a chart. The wrapping on the outside of the box doesn’t really matter, it’s the gift on the inside that counts.................

[Joe 6-pack]

"My ball python used to escape and hide for about 6 months at a time. We’d find him in all kinds of strange places. He hasn’t returned from his latest safari. Haven’t seen him in four years. I don’t think he’s coming back."

I had a ball python that went missing for about two years. When I was packing up to move, I discovered that he'd found his way under the waterbed mattress, next to the heating pad, but never found his way out. He was essentially mummified.

[Joe 6-pack]

That looks like Obama’s March Madness NCAA (NAACP?) brackets.

[Verginius Rufus]

First snake species ever which was discovered because it had sent tweets.

[Verginius Rufus]

Interesting chart. I’m surprised at the position of the Sardinians. Why aren’t Basques equally distinct from other Europeans? Or even Corsicans—is there that much difference between Sardinia and Corsica?

[Red Badger]

It must be a Sheen Snake................

[Osage Orange]

Already has....hundreds of times.

[Retired Greyhound]

But at least he died warm and happy.

[allmendream]

Same here, but if we are going to start talking about how many subdivisions there are, they do NOT fit nicely into three different boxes - and if they did they wouldn't be the boxes you previously suggested.

People are, on the whole, VERY similar in DNA. There is as much variation between two members of the same group as there are, on average, between groups.

All people are very closely related by common descent according to all available evidence and despite the several posters I have seen on FR talking about a separate creation of different human populations.

[biff]

Naw, looks like good targets.

[spetznaz]

Yup. Never held one (nor seen one with my own eyes), but I’ve heard quite a number of interesting stories about it. Also, venom probably will not kill ya, but you may wish it had (and it will definitely destroy whatever finger/digit was hit). BTW, I remember an interesting article some years back of some tests they did on over a thousand species of lizard, and most of them came back as venomous. Come across it? Remember when the only venomous lizards were the Gila and the Beaded Lizard, then slowly some scientists started saying that Komodos have venom glands and venom in their lower jaw (and not just loads of crazy bacteria in their bloody carrior filled mouths causing septicemia when they bite their prey), and then suddenly other monitors had venom glands, and then there were many lizards with venom (of some sort, even if not as complex as the protein mixes of venomous snakes). It was quite intriguing.

[ZULU]

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicofera

but also,

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100626165747AARQ7a2

Dr. Fry theorizes that a large number of snakes and lizards considered non-venomous are indeed venomous.

Dr. Kenneth Kardong takes issue with that theory, noting, that by Dr. Fry’s definition of venomous, human beings are venomous.

Having been bitten by numerous “non-venomous” snakes and lizards, I don’t take Fry’s ideas about venomosity serious but think hios research is interesting from a pharmcological and possibly systematic perspective.

[RoadGumby]

Not a tree hugger here at all, yet that is just ignorance. One would think one could learn venomous vs non-venomous instead of just ‘fear’.

Snakes serve a great purpose, granted that venomous do not belong near a home.

[Texas Fossil]

Snakes serve a great purpose, granted that venomous do not belong near a home.

She was not very selective. She new not to kill bull snakes or racers. Anything else was in trouble around her.

I agree that some snakes are beneficial, but survival instincts from the old pioneer ladies should never be discounted. There are far too many rattle snakes here since CRP came about. We always had them in large numbers along the river breaks (Brazos) but we now regularly kill them around the house at the farm. Many times on the sidewalk at the front door (those are all dead).

[Cuttnhorse]

Yep...I recall the Bamboo Viper...looks a lot like this guy. We used to call it Charlie Two-Step; you only had two steps before checking out.

[oh8eleven]

I recall the Bamboo Viper ...
Ah yes, the good old days :)
Glad you made it back.

[AdmSmith]

Venomous like its cousins Cryptelytrops

http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search.php?taxon=&genus=Cryptelytrops&species=&subspecies=&author=&year=&common_name=&location=&holotype=&reference=&submit=Search

Bites are very painful but do not usually end fatally.
A bad bite can lead to necrosis.

[AdmSmith]

Venomous like its cousins Cryptelytrops

http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search.php?taxon=&genus=Cryptelytrops&species=&subspecies=&author=&year=&common_name=&location=&holotype=&reference=&submit=Search

Bites are very painful but do not usually end fatally.
A bad bite can lead to necrosis.