Focuses on Cenozoic snakes, with an emphasis on snake diversity and evolution since the Neogene. Conduct taxonomic studies on Late Cenozoic snake fossils based on the osteological database of extant snakes. By integrating fossil evidence with morphological and molecular data of living taxa, reconstruct the biogeographic dispersal and speciation history of relevant groups driven by climatic and environmental changes. Using three-dimensional geometric morphometric datasets of both extant and fossil snakes investigate the adaptive evolution between skeletal morphology and function in snakes.

Shi, J.*, Wang, G., Chen, X., Fang, Y., Ding, L., Huang, S., Hou, M., Liu, J., & Li, P. (2017). A new moth‐preying alpine pit viper species from Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau (Viperidae, Crotalinae). Amphibia‐Reptilia, 38(4), 517–532.

Shi, J., Yang, D., Zhang, W., Peng, L., Orlov, N. L., Jiang, F., Ding, L., Hou, M., Huang, X., Huang, S., & Li, P. (2018). A new species of the Gloydius strauchi complex (Crotalinae: Viperidae: Serpentes) from Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu, China. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 25(2), 126–138.

Chen, Z., Shi, S., Vogel, G., Ding, L., & Shi, J.* (2021). Multiple lines of evidence reveal a new species of krait (Squamata, Elapidae, Bungarus) from southwestern China and northern Myanmar. ZooKeys, 1025(1), 35–71. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1025.62305

Qi, S., Shi, J., Ma, Y., Gao, Y., Bu, S., Grismer, L., Li, P., & Wang, Y. (2021). A sheep in wolf's clothing: Elaphe xiphodonta sp. nov. (Squamata, Colubridae) and its possible mimicry to Protobothrops jerdonii. ZooKeys, 1048, 23–47. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1048.65650

Shi, J., Liu, J., Giri, R., Owens, J., Santra, V., Kuttalam, S., Selvan, M., Guo, K., & Malhotra, A. (2021). Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the genus Gloydius (Squamata, Viperidae, Crotalinae), with descriptions of two new alpine species from Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau, China. ZooKeys, 1061, 87–108. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1061.70420

Zhang, M., Shi, S., Yan, P., Wang, P., Ding, L., Jiang, J., & Shi, J.* (2022). Exploring cryptic biodiversity in a famous scenery: a new pit viper (Squamata, Viperidae, Crotalinae) from Jiuzhaigou, Aba, Sichuan, China. ZooKeys, 1114, 59–76. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1114.79709

Zhou, S., He, L., Ma, S., Xu, S., Zhai, Q., Guan, P., Wang, H., & Shi, J.* (2022). Taxonomic status of Rana nigromaculata mongolia and the validity of Pelophylax tenggerensis (Anura, Ranidae). Zootaxa, 5165(4), 486–500. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5165.4.2

Shi, J., Li, J., Yang, Q., Liu, N., & Chen, X. (2023). Prehistoric snake bones from Zuojiang River Basin, Guangxi, China. Historical Biology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2162397

Shi, J.*, Wang, Y., Messenger, K., Jiangzuo, Q., Chen, Y., & Jin, C. (2023). Early Pliocene fossil snakes (Squamata, Colubroidea) with various teeth from the fissure deposit in Queshan, Henan, China. Historical Biology, 35(12), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2161382

Shi, J.*, Li, Q., Stidham, T., Zhang, C., Jiangzuo, Q., Chen, M., & Ni, X. (2023). Evolutionary and biogeographic implications of the first fossil Erycine snake (Serpentes, Erycidae, Eryx) from the arid Late Miocene Linxia Basin, northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau (Gansu, China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 617, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111491

Qiu, X., Wang, X., Qi, S., Wang, J., Xia, Z., Wang, H., Zhou, S., Yu, G., Wu, Z., Shi, J., & Li, P. (2023). Neotype designation and redescription of Gloydius shedaoensis qianshanensis Li, 1999 (Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae). Herpetologica, 36, 297–306. https://doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.36.e106943

Qiu, X., Wang, J., Xia, Z., Jiang, Z., Wang, N., Li, P., & Shi, J.* (2024). A new mountain pitviper of the genus Ovophis Burger in Hoge & Romano‐Hoge, 1981 (Serpentes, Viperidae) from Yunnan, China. ZooKeys, 1203, 173–187. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1203.119218

Jin, L., Xia, Z., Liu, N., Hou, S., Lv, C., Tang, L., Feng, S., Shi, J., & Bai, M. (2025). Phylogeny and specific determination of Gloydius halys‐intermedius complex based on complete mitochondrial genes. Genes, 276 (16), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes16030276

史静耸*，胡海虔，邓国栋，金泽田(2025) 安徽东至华龙洞 1 号地点中更新统蛇类化石. 人类学学报. 44(5): 850-861.

史静耸, 杨登为, 张武元, 李丕鹏*，丁利* (2016). 西伯利亚蝮-中介蝮复合种在中国的分布及其种下分类（蛇亚目：蝮亚科）动物学杂志. 51(5): 777–798.

邱显淳, 王锦泽, 王昊天, 齐硕, 史静耸*，李丕鹏* (2023). 辽宁省爬行动物名录及地理区划更新. 动物学杂志. 2023, 58(4): 523–539.

1. Maxillary morphology, diet and character evolution of the Cenozoic colubrid snakes (Reptilia: Colubroidea) in China (2022–2025), funding: 300,000 RMB, project type: National Natural Science Foundation of China Project, principal investigator

2. Research on Cenozoic colubrid snake fossils in China (2022–2025), funding: 70,000 RMB, project type: State Key Laboratory Project, principal investigator

3. Baseline survey of amphibians and reptiles in Chongqing Xuebaoshan National Nature Reserve (2023–2024), funding: 86,000 RMB, project type: Central Government Fiscal Project, principal investigator

4. Baseline survey of Coleoptera in Chongqing Xuebaoshan National Nature Reserve (2023–2024), funding: 160,000 RMB, project type: Central Government Fiscal Project, principal investigator

5. Population survey of Gloydius changdaoensis in Shandong Changdao National Nature Reserve (2022–2023), funding: 450,000 RMB, project type: Central Government Fiscal Project, principal investigator