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Week in wildlife in photos: a dangling marmoset, uncommon leopard infants and an eyelash snake

Week in wildlife in photos: a dangling marmoset, uncommon leopard infants and an eyelash snake

Introducing the limestone eyelash pit viper, a newly found species of snake that lives within the forests of southern Thailand. “Usually [pitvipers] have one massive scale above the attention which appears a bit like an eyebrow and provides these snakes a critical look,” mentioned one of many scientists behind the discover, Nikolay Poyarkov. However this new species has numerous small, barely protruding scales above the attention, giving the impression of eyelashes. “The snake seemed fairly cute,” Poyarkov added

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