Blake Knapp🌲 on Instagram: "The red bellied newt (Taricha rivularis) normally native to the coastal range of Sonoma county to Humboldt county has a strange isolated population more than 80 miles from its closest known range. This separated population is not genetically distinct from its main population so researchers haven’t found a concrete conclusion on how they got there. However it’s thought the population was introduced. The suspect is a scientist Victor Twitty who was known for experiment