In a journal article published last year, researchers described the adder as the first (and doubtless not the last) known example of chemical crypsis in a terrestrial species and as "additional evidence for the existence of an ongoing chemically mediated arms race between predator and prey species".
But this is doubtless not the last of the Clinton campaign's dirty tricks.
That includes the millions of invertebrate species who arrived at the party long before man and will doubtless be the last to leave.
After experiencing numerous groundings and accidents and having been inhibited by low water in the river, Ives declared: "Ours has been the first, and will doubtless be the last, party of whites to visit this profitless locality.
Granted, any insights he hoped to convey about the title role were doubtless stymied by the last minute cast change.
And that is why this week's operation in Gaza is widely viewed as having been inevitable, another painful but necessary maintenance operation that, officials here say, will doubtless not be the last.
This will doubtless not be the last case the feds try to prosecute against a provider who is scrupulously following state and local law (the government of Oakland was fully behind Harborside, it bears mentioning, throughout their entire legal odyssey), but it certainly was a case with a very high profile.
The homeless families evicted by police from their shacks in the shanty towns that have sprung up on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince would doubtless take issue with the last claim, but it would be a mistake to assume all the anger that Haitians feel is directed at the ruling class.
Rupert Murdoch supported the Conservatives at the last election, doubtless hoping that some favours would be returned.
A week later the same Mr Hollande reacted to the UMP convention by declaring: "We have the same need for unity and cohesion but not the same method".If by method Mr Hollande means the arm-twisting that gave birth to the UMP, then the Communists and the Greens part of the Socialist-led coalinion in the last government will doubtless be relieved.
