Researchers Have Seen Nothing Like This: They Find a New Creature in a Gold Mine on a Remote Pacific Island

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A team of researchers has described a new species of tree snake in the archipelago of the Louisiade, southeast of Papua New Guinea. The finding, published in April 2025 in the scientific magazine Zootaxa, is part of a work led by the herpetologist Fred Kraus, of the University of Michigan, in which four new species of tree snakes distributed on different islands of the area have been identified. The new species, called Dendrelaphis atra, was fou…