MAN-ACONDA, SCOPERTO IN BRASILE IL "SERPENTE-PENE"

Experts came across the Atretochoana eiselti, which experts have dubbed the “floppy snake”, as they examined a hydroelectric dam on a river in the Amazon. Six of the eyeless creatures — actually a family of “blind snake” more closely related to the salamander — were found living at the bottom of the Madeira River in Brazil’s northern state of Rondonia. The discovery was made in November last year as a stretch of the river was being drained, but was only made public today after the snake’s genus was finally confirmed.

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