A Louisiana professor is in heady company, honored by having one of three newly identified species of snakes from the Galapagos Islands named after him. The snake in question, a handsome critter with lengthwise brown and creamy yellow stripes, is called Pseudalsophis thomasi (sood-al-SO-fis TOM-uhs-eye). He's been studying snakes since the 1970s and began studying those in the Galapagos Islands in 1984. In 1997, he published an overview of Galapagos snakes based on features such as scale counts, patterns and other shapes and forms. Then the others told him they wanted to name one of the new species after him, to honor his work studying the islands' snakes.

Source: ABC News October 20, 2018 12:38 UTC