Typically, they’re slender snakes with smooth scales and grow to be about 2 to 4 feet (0.6 to 1.2 meters) long. Their color ranges from brown to black, making them excellent at blending into their ...

Hallermann and Hawlitschek wanted to better understand a group of African house snakes which are often misidentified due to their shared physical traits. Researchers collected DNA samples from ...

Jakob Hallermann and Oliver Hawlitschek decided to try and sort out a “common” yet often misidentified group of snakes known as African House snakes, they wrote in a study published Jan. 13 in ...