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New species of cobra found { GIANT}
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by BigBend66 on December 9, 2007
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http://news.aol.com/story/_a/record-size-spitting-cobra-discovered/20071207161509990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
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by ChuckHurd on December 9, 2007
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i saw this a couple days ago, how did they miss a 9 foot cobra for all of these years??? specially one that spits at you. seems so odd to me.
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by LarryDFishel on December 9, 2007
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They didn't miss it, they just considred it part of a known species. Now they've split it into a serarate species is all. (But that doesn't make an interesting enough headline for "normal" people.)
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by Chance on December 9, 2007
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I ran across this thread some time ago on a South African website. It has pictures of both the new species and it's ginormous venom yield. Impressive stuff! I noticed the specimens Mark Lucas has looked a little familiar, so I sent him a link to the thread and apparently he decided that his brown "N. nigricollis" were indeed N. ashei. Here's the link:
http://www.sareptiles.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5880
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by GREGLONGHURST on December 10, 2007
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I had the great pleasure of working under the direction of Jimmy Ashe for about a year while at Lion Country back in the late '60s. Heckuva herpetologist. He described one of the bush vipers forty-odd years ago, Atheris desaixi (Ashe). It is good to see that someone named a snake after him.
~~Greg~~
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by vanerka on December 10, 2007
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I think it is awsome and why they havnt put it ont the news or anything is beyond me... However i was watching th news the other night and they decided to run a story on a 5' boa constrictor slithering into someones house in the suburbs... Apperently it was a nieghbors pet that escaped... Thats proposterous.... A new species is determined and yet they run garbage about an escaped boa.... For the love of god... Dont you just love our media today!
Thanks Eric
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by 23bms on December 10, 2007
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The media 200 years ago was every bit as vile if not worse. History provides perspective.
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by milksnakegreg on December 11, 2007
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071207-new-cobra.html
i dont know if this is the same one but it is kind of neat
it said it was thought at first to be a variant of the black necked spitting cobra
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by boomslangandrew on December 12, 2007
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it is good that mopre species of snake are being discovered especially spitting cobras they are one of the best snakes in the animal kingdom
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by Crotalus75 on December 12, 2007
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The original journal article is here:
http://biology.bangor.ac.uk/~bss166/
Click the publications link.
WÜSTER, W. & D.G. BROADLEY (2007) Get an eyeful of this: a new species of giant spitting cobra from eastern and north-eastern Africa (Squamata: Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja). Zootaxa 1532: 51-68
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