A snake pulled from inside another snake's stomach was a species unknown to science — Cenaspis aenigma!
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00:00What do you get when you pull a snake out of the belly of another snake?
00:04In this case, a new species.
00:10Not just a new species, but a new genus, which is like one step above a species.
00:14So it's really amazing.
00:15Snakes swallowing snakes is actually not that big a deal.
00:17They kind of do it all the time.
00:19But when people pulled the snake out of the belly of another snake,
00:23they realized that it was a snake that had never been described by scientists before.
00:28So that was a little weird.
00:30So this actually happened in 1976.
00:34And so for 40 years, scientists have actually been looking for a living example of this snake.
00:39Because the snake that they found, only example of its species, it was partly digested.
00:44Which is not ideal for describing a species.
00:46And you kind of want to have as many individuals as possible.
00:49So they went to the place in Mexico where the snake was found.
00:52They looked around.
00:53They looked around some more.
00:55They looked around for four decades and they didn't find any snakes.
00:59But the scientists decided, you know what?
01:01Let's just go with what we have.
01:03So what they did was they published a study describing this new species of snake.
01:07And because of how they found it inside the belly of another snake,
01:10they gave it a Latin name which translates into mysterious dinner.
01:14So that's the story of the mysterious dinner snake.
01:17So that's the story of the mysterious dinner snake.
01:21And so it was episode 19.
01:22So that's really my energy.
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01:29And this is what they identify with.
01:30So this is the story of the woman who has learned from Taipei at home,
01:35and he said his mother in China is exactly
01:43to get out of the 70s.
01:44On h longing for다고.
01:46He mentioned he didn't think he put it out.
01:47Yeah, he said you don't really think but.
01:48All right.
01:49He's got a search another one.