Biologists studying a drained river in Brazil have discovered a new species of amphibian that looks disconcertingly like a male organ.
Atretochoana eiselti is a caecilian. That's the family of amphibians that's jealous that frogs and salamanders get all the attention. The Times article concludes:
Tupan said the team believes the creature breathes through its skin and probably feeds on small fish and worms. They know nothing about its sex life.
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They've done it. They've finally found a trouser snake.
This isn't a newly discovered species. It's been known, from at least the 1970's, as the Ronnus Jeremicus.
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