@KateShaw has released a new episode: The snakes of Snake Island (a lancehead and a snail-eater), the Martinique Fer-de-lance (a different lancehead), and the Louisiana Pine Snake (a constrictor).

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2024/07/29/episode-391-welcome-to-snake-island/

#snakes
#squamates
#reptiles
#ferDeLance
#pitVipers

Five #NewSpecies of Eyelash #Pitvipers Discovered in South America https://www.sci.news/biology/bothriechis-eyelash-pitvipers-12681.html

Systematic revision of the Eyelash Palm-Pitviper Bothriechis schlegelii, with the description of five new species and revalidation of three https://evolsyst.pensoft.net/article/114527/

"certain populations exhibit longer, more stylized eyelashes compared to others. The variations in the condition of the eyelashes led researchers to hypothesize the existence of undiscovered species"

#Snakes #Animals #Reptiles #Biodiversity