Meet Alejandro Arteaga: The Ecuadorian biologist who went into cloud forests looking for reptiles for a book and ended up finding a snake new to science |
Image: Left/Ninia guytudori/By:Alejandro Arteaga/Right/Alejandro Arteaga/By:Kate Berry / Australia Zoo Alejandro Arteaga went into the cloud forests of Ecuador with a very specific mission, he was searching for reptiles to document for a book on the country’s extraordinary herpetological diversity. Instead, one of his field trips produced something far more significant, a snake that science had…