Seychelles home to new species of caecilian, a legless amphibian

Mongabay
Oct 19, 2017, 2:35 am111 pts
A team of scientists from Seychelles, the United States and the United Kingdom has found a new caecilian, perhaps the smallest species of the legless amphibian on Earth. “As soon as I saw it I knew it was a new species,” said Simon Maddock, a conservation biologist at the University of Wolverhampton in a…

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