New Toast for Zoologists: an Unknown Species of Snake that Feeds on Eggs Breaking Its Shell Before It Is Discovered in Ethiopia

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A team of zoologists identified a new species of snake in the Harenna forest in Ethiopia: Dasypeltis albigularis, named as "white gorge eggs" because of the color of that area of its body. Reptile, harmless to humans, feeds exclusively on bird eggs and breaks them with adapted vertebrae in the throat before swallowing them whole. The finding was carried out by a team led by Arthur Tiutenko, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, with…