Spit and hiss

Planning a trip to Kenya? You might just want to be on the watch-out for the recently discovered wildlife - a new species of giant spitting cobra.
The cobra measures nearly nine feet and has enough venom to kill 15 men. Naja Ashei, as the new species, with unique DNA, is known, is named after James Ashe, now deceased, who founded Bio-Ken snake farm and was the first to find the area's gigantic spitting cobras.
In announcing the new species, WildlifeDirect said the cobras were the world's largest. (The group's chairman is Kenyan environmentalist Richard Leakey ... also known for his archaelogical work including the 1978 find of an intact cranium of Homo Erectus and the later find of the skull of a new species, Australopithecus aethiopicus.)
The group is looking to the discovery of the new species as a way to excite people about the need for snake conservation. As Reuters were told by phone: "People don't care about saving snakes. They talk of saving dolphins or cats, but never snakes!"