A Hidden Treasure of Rare Snake Specimens

A Hidden Treasure of Rare Snake Specimens: In the foothills of the Ecuadorean Amazon, a 101-year-old farmer and a young scientist turned an amateur collection into a scientific survey of one of the most diverse snake habitats on Earth. By Alexa Robles-Gil (Photographs and Video by Johanna Alarcón) A decade ago, Alex Bentley, a young American scientist, traveled to the small Ecuadorean town