Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Meet Matilda's horned viper

(Matilda's horned viper; Credit for all images: WCS’s Director of Tanzania, Tim Davenport)

Meet Matilda's horned viper, a new snake discovered in a remote part of Tanzania, East Africa.

Matilda, technically known as Atheris matildae, was named after the daughter of Tim Davenport, who is the Wildlife Conservation Society's Director of Tanzania and also co-authored a paper about the snake, published recently in the journal Zootaxa. "
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