Hidden odd-scaled snake from Chinese mountains is a new species

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAs promised, the snake.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorScientists have confirmed a brand-new species, Achalinus mirabilis, found on Kuocang Mountain in Taizhou City, in one of the most urbanized corners of China.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA seventeen-year-old high school student helped find it after more than forty nights of field observations.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe breakthrough snake slithered across a road as the student was coming down the mountain.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorForty nights. I can't get my brother to text me back in forty days.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe paper in Zoosystematics and Evolution puts the genus at thirty species, and only nine were recognized as recently as twenty nineteen. Teenager out here doing the whole field's homework.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe proposed English name is Kuocang Mountain odd-scaled snake.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOdd-scaled. Rude, but accurate.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRex, I hear you have a scoreboard to yell at, so go ahead.