Two reptile hunters have discovered a new species of snake with ‘blade-like’ fangs in Thailand.

This slithering animal, they report, also has strongly ridged scales on its underbelly that allow it to ‘climb vertical rock faces.’

‘It is especially adapted to life in this harsh environment,’ said one of the reptile hunters, who named their find the ‘Cave Kukri Snake’ or, Oligodon speleoserpens, after its unforgiving home in Thailand’s limestone karst mountain caves. 

Evolutionary biologists who assisted these reptile hunters in categorizing their new snake said the creature’s two ‘enlarged blade-shaped maxillary teeth’ and its mountaineering ridges offered ‘strong evidence’ indicative of a brand new species.

While only three…