Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left: Slash's groundsnake, Lielaphis slashi, in New Guinea. Photo credit: Chris Austin. Right: Slash and Sara Ruane at the Field ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown snake in New Guinea. The discovery is notable both for its rock-star tribute and for what it suggests about a forest ecosystem researchers are still ...

Slash, aka Saul Hudson, is probably best known as the guitarist for Guns N' Roses. But there's more to Slash than his music. He's also a lifelong reptile lover and an avid supporter of zoos and ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of land snake in New Guinea and named it Lielaphis slashi in honor of Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash. Genetic analysis, body structure features, and ...

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 ...

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Long before Sara Ruane became a herpetologist, two interests were already shaping her future: snakes and Guns N’ Roses. By fifth grade, she knew she wanted to study reptiles. A few years later, a ...

・A newly described groundsnake from Papua New Guinea has been named Lielaphis slashi after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, a lifelong reptile enthusiast. ・Genetic analyses, scale counts, anatomy and ...

There’s a new snake in Slash’s snake pit. Scientists with the Field Museum discovered a new species of ground snake scientifically referred to as Lielaphis slashi, and officially named it after the ...

A reddish-brown snake collected from a New Guinea forest nearly two decades ago has turned out to be something no scientist had formally recognized before. Its new name connects one of the world’s ...