Beautiful Gumbrechts Green Pit Viper

The Gumbrechts Green Pit Viper joins the huntsman spider as among the 1,000 species found in Greater Mekong. Isn’t this viper a beauty!

The Gumbrechts Green Pit Viper was also revealed by the World Wildlife Fund today as among the discoveries in Mekong over the last decade.

The WWF report called “First Contact in the Greater Mekong” reports that “between 1997 and 2007, at least 1,068 have been officially described by science as being newly discovered species.”

But the viper wasn’t found in the rainforest. Na. He was found in a restaurant! Researchers found him in the ceiling of a restaurant at the headquarters of Thailand’s Khao Yai national park.

Article and image Source