Image courtesy of Mark Spicer
Joel Kontinen
A subspecies of
the Somali sharp-snouted worm lizard was found by a landmine clearance team,
the first official sighting since 1931.
“A subspecies of
the Somali sharp-snouted worm lizard (Ancylocranium somalicum parkeri) was
first reported by scientists in 1931 in the region that is now Somaliland”.
Last month, Mark
Spicer at the HALO Trust, a landmine clearance charity, and his colleagues
were in Somaliland, near the Ethiopian border. “One day, one of our minefield
supervisors, Hassan Du’ale, called me over to show me something interesting,”
says Spicer. “I’m following him, we’re both wearing PPE [personal
protective equipment] and he did a bit of scrambling around in the earth and
produced a worm lizard.”
Well, evolution
says that some animals live for a few years and then die off, but with these animales it’s the opposite.
Source:
Chen Ly
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