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The Tibetan hot-spring snake (Thermophis baileyi), keeps from freezing to death by hanging around the region’s geothermal pools, feasting on frogs and small fish living there. Mutations helped reptiles survive thin air and bitter cold—and even find warm bathing spots.
“This is a pretty extreme place for snakes to be living,” says Sara Ruane, a herpetologist at the Field Museum. The work “just shows how adaptable snakes are.” Says Alex Pyron, a herpetologist and evolutionary biologist at George Washington University: “For reptiles, we generally assume if it’s too cold, there won’t be any snakes or lizards. Not so fast, says Thermophis!”
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