{"id":492710,"date":"2026-03-24T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492710\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:16:12","slug":"blue-snake-among-new-species-found-in-cambodias-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492710\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue snake among new species found in Cambodia&#8217;s caves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spectacular blue snake is one of 11 new species that has been discovered in caves in Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The turquoise pit viper was collected during a large survey of the unique caves that make up the landscape in western Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While its official name has not been decided, the &#8220;pit&#8221; refers to the heat-sensitive organ on its head, which it uses to detect prey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The survey team, led by the wildlife conservation charity Fauna &amp; Flora, explored more than 60 caves across 10 hills in Battambang province, western Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also discovered other species that are new to science, including a flying snake, several geckos, two micro-snails and two millipedes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spectacular blue snake is one of 11 new species that has been discovered in caves in Cambodia.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-492710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}