This is a juvenile Luzon king cobra (Ophiophagus salvatana) that was recently spotted in Bahong, La Trinidad, Benguet. This species is extremely venomous because of the large volume of venom it can inject in a single bite. Here's what's very interesting about this snake. It was described and officially recognized as a new species only last year (2024). The scientists who studied it published their research work in October of last year in the European Journal of Taxonomy. This species is endemic

Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains in Luzon in the Philippines. Located on the tripoint of Zambales, Tarlac and Pampanga provinces, most people were unaware of its eruptive history before the pre-eruption volcanic activity in early 1991. Dense forests, which supported a population of several thousand indigenous Aetas, heavily eroded and obscured Pinatubo. Pinatubo is known for its VEI-6 eruption on June 15, 1991, the second-largest terrestrial eruption of the 20t