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Scientists have classified a new family of snakes. Just 3 known species belong to the newly identified Micrelapidae family which live in East Africa and the Middle East. Scientists say these reptiles are thought to have slithered off the snake evolutionary tree 50 million years ago. They were previously considered part of the largest snake family, Colubridae, but DNA tests in recent years showed otherwise.
“Today we tend to assume that most large groups of animals, such as families, are already known to science, but sometimes we still encounter surprises, and this is what happened with Micrelapid snakes,” Professor Shai Meiri of Tel Aviv University’s School of Zoology says.
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