A chance discovery based on a local's description has uncovered three new species of rarely seen ground snake
on a mission to find toads that were feared lost to extinction. Unfortunately, the scientists failed to find a single one. But a chance encounter on the way home tipped the team off to a different sort of discovery.
A local woman welcomed the travelers, and as she began preparing locally caught trout, she overheard the crew talking about amphibians and“And then she told us that she often sees snakes in the local graveyard, while visiting her deceased family members,” recalls Arteaga.Atractus Stunned by the yellow-bellied serpents, the team dedicated more time to the Andean region, even gathering samples of snakes collected by a local schoolteacher named Diego Piñán. All told, the expedition led to the description of three ground snake species new to science, according to aA. discovery, which has a yellow belly with no line, andBiologist Alejandro Arteaga shows the bright-yellow belly of a newfound snake species,Please be respectful of copyright.
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