Yeah, I learned that in the 3rd grade along with oil comes from dinosaurs. Doesn’t come close to answering my question. How come it’s a new species of snake instead of a new race of snakes?
Here’s what I was told in college biology, kinda basic and oversimplified:
Animals are considered a different species if two specimens that do not normally mate are cross bred and do not produce viable reproductive offspring.
A mule, a cross between a horse and a donkey, is sterile and cannot produce reproductive offspring.
Dogs and wolves can produce reproductive offspring because dogs are essentially wolves of a different race.
Black, white and Asian humans obviously produce reproductive offspring, so we are a single species.......