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Old 03-14-2013, 01:00 PM   #1
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A rather thin and long new snake crawls out of one of Earth's biodiversity hotspots

A team of Ecuadorian and American scientists have discovered a new species, belonging to a neotropical group of remarkably long arboreal (tree-dwelling) snakes: the blunt-headed vine snakes, from the Choco biodiversity hotspot in northwestern Ecuador. DNA data suggest that the closest relative of the new species lives on the other side of the Andes.



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