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.
01:21How would you tell me?
01:23That actual story is a nerd.
01:25The story of the snake snake sandbox.
01:27First of all, through your relenting heisting member of the snake.
01:29The scientific identity is a legend in which his opinion,
01:31in which the plant savior does anybody.
01:32He probabilistic of the snake.
01:33The snake's kitten, thats a compact one.
01:34Let's look over.
01:36But what that matters into nature the snake species.
01:38The 11 of folkslerini have been given some瓜 cod associated with fish.
01:40Which he knows the kind of identity.
01:42The transformation is simply not used as those younger animals.
01:43It is a modified.
01:45So that's what initially have its own,
01:46What did we see there once again?
01:47Not a good idea to the surface cockroces.