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A team of researchers from India, upon discovering a new species of green pit vipers, have decided to name the snake after the one, the only Salazar Slytherin. Their findings were published this ...

Trimeresurus salazar, or Salazar’s pit viper, named for the Harry Potter character Salazar Slytherin Mirza et al., Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2020 In dreaming up the hallowed halls of ...

Their naming the snake Salazar Slytherin gives everyone a chance to see how influential Harry Potter obviously was to a new generation of scientists. Is it a first for a new species being named ...

They named a new species of green pit viper after Salazar Slytherin, co-founder of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In Harry Potter books, he was known for his ability to talk to snakes.