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Rare Iridescent Snake Discovered In Vietnam, Scales Shift Through Blues And Greens KEY POINTS A team of U.S. and Vietnamese scientists discovered a new species of odd-scaled burrowing snakes in northern Vietnam The snake, named Achalinus zugorum, has dark and iridescent scales that shift through blues and greens in the light The snake spends most of its life beneath the surface and lacks bright-light photoreceptors in its eyes A rare iridescent snake with scales that shift from green to blue has been discovered in Vietnam. A team of scientists from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology discovered the new species of snake last year while researching biodiversity in a heavily forested part of northern Vietnam.

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