• Creature Featurettes, Pod Blog

    Kukri Snakes (Oligodon)

    Here’s another ‘pod blog’, providing supplemental material for Episode 124: Herp Science Sunday with Justin Lee. In this episode of HSS, Dr. Alex Krohn and I had a conversation with Justin Lee, currently working on his PhD at the University of Michigan. The bulk of our conversation centered around the genus Oligodon, of which Justin is a subject matter expert. Justin has authored and co-authored a number of papers on Kukri snakes, describing new species, and producing an updated phylogeny of Oligodon in 2024. The material I am presenting here, including some of my Oligodon photos, supports the podcast episode; if you haven’t listened yet, I think it’s an entertaining segment featuring a very cool snake genus, and an up-and-coming…