The king cobra is the world's largest venomous snake, sometimes reaching lengths of over 18 feet.
When you hear the term king as part of the name of a snake species, it almost always means they eat other snakes, that they're like the king of snakes.
For centuries, scientists thought there was only one King Cobra.
Turns out, that's not exactly true.
We've been calling king cobras one species for almost 200 years, and we've probably been wrong this whole time.
The king cobra genus actually includes four different species.
They found three main characteristics that differentiate the four species from one another.
Number of teeth, pattern, and geographic location.
The discovery of new species in museum collections is not uncommon.
But for an entirely new species of such, like, large and charismatic animals is pretty rare.
