Unlike most snakes, it’s soft and cuddly, with shiny scale details on its back and a silver and green Slytherin house scarf.

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“We’re like our emblem, the snake: sleek ... the Sorting Hat believed Harry should wear green and silver, rather than red and gold? “Not Slytherin, eh?” it whispered in Harry’s ear ...

A green pit viper named after Salazar Slytherin from Harry Potter, an unfamiliar snake found in an Instagram post, and twelve new species of day geckos from a single mountain range are few of the ...