Tel Aviv University researchers have registered a new family of snakes, dating back 50 million years and corrected a previous wrong classification. Micrelapidae comprises 3 distinct species, one of which resides in and around Israel. The other two live in East Africa.
https://english.tau.ac.il/snakes_2023
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105579032200313X