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“It hurt around the wound, and the skin around it turned dark,” said the unfortunate man, who luckily survived.
In fact, the discovery of Suzhen’s krait was inspired by another accident from 2015, when the Chinese herpetologist Mian Hou was bitten by a black-and-white banded krait in Yingjiang. “The black-and-white banded krait is one of the snakes most similar to the white snake in nature, so we decided to name it after Bai Su Zhen,” say the authors. Illustration of the Legend of the White Snake, by Xin Wang, Chongqing museum of natural history Since then, the Chinese regard her as a symbol of true love and good-heartedness. However, this love between goddess and human was forbidden by the world of the gods and, eventually, Bai Su Zhen was imprisoned in a tower for eternity. Together, they ran a hospital, saving lots of human lives with medicine and magic.
The legend says that, after thousands of years of practicing magic power, the white snake Bai Su Zhen transformed herself into a young woman and fell in love with the human man Xu Xian. “Oscar describes Oscar”: Interview with Oscar Lasso-Alcalá, Pt 1 The researchers decided to name the new species Bungarus suzhenae – Suzhen’s krait, after the mythical figure of Bai Su Zhen (白素贞) – a powerful snake goddess from the traditional Chinese myth ‘ Legend of White Snake (白蛇传)’. Their study is published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys. The new krait species, found in Southwestern China and Northern Myanmar, is described by Dr Zening Chen of Guangxi Normal University, PhD candidate Shengchao Shi, Dr Li Ding from the Chengdu Institute of Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dr Gernot Vogel of the Society for Southeast Asian Herpetology in Germany and Dr Jingsong Shi of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at Chinese Academy of Sciences. The very krait that caused his death is now confirmed to belong to the same species identified as a new to science venomous snake, following an examination of samples collected between 20 from Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province, China. Slowinski died from snakebite by an immature black-and-white banded krait, while leading an expedition team in northern Myanmar. In 2001, the famous herpetologist Joseph B.