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World's Newest Snake: Matilda Horned Viper
buzzfeed.com 3 weeks, 6 days agoThe newly classified species of snake has menacing-looking yellow and black scales, dull green eyes and two spiky horns. And it’s named after a seven-year-old girl. The Viper was discovered two years ago in Tanzania but was not officially recognized as a newest snake until last month "My daughter, who was 5 at the time, became fascinated by it and used to love spending time watching it and helping us look after it. We called it Matilda's Viper at that stage … and then the name stuck." - Tim Davenport Source
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Porters Are Unheralded Heroes Of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro
miamiherald.com 3 weeks, 6 days agoUp from the equatorial plains they climb, into a dripping rain forest, through a shrub-riddled wasteland and across a desolate alpine desert before finally making a nighttime trudge up the lonely ice-capped crater that's Africa's tallest peak.
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