From Bizarre Beasts.

Eyelash vipers were thought to be one widely distributed species that came in a lot of colors, but they’re actually more like five to nine different snakes that each come in a rainbow of colors…even within the same litter… so, how does that work?

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Sources:
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-began-dazzling-species-eyelash-vipers.html
https://evolsyst.pensoft.net/article/114527/
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https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/pdf/2486599
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.17338

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