New species of pitvipers discovered in endangered Mexican cloud forests

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Jan 7, 2016, 4:40 pm135 pts
Scientists say they’ve discovered a new species of horned pitviper in the critically endangered cloud forests of the Sierra Madre Oriental in Jalisco, Mexico, and determined that another pitviper is indeed a unique species. So much of the snake’s mountainous habitat has been destroyed due to logging and…

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