A hooded, venom-spitting snake that has been pickled at a museum in Zimbabwe for 40 years has been recognized as a brand new species primarily based on DNA evaluation.
The snake, named the Nyanga rinkhals (Hemachatus nyangensis), comes from the mountainous Nyanga area of Zimbabwe, however it might have already gone extinct.
A feminine specimen stored on the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo was discovered run over in 1982. It was initially recognized as one other rinkhals species, Hemachatus haemachatus …