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X-ray of two-headed snake

David Pescovitz at 12:52 pm Fri, Dec 16, 2011

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 Images Two-Headed-Snake Lampropeltis Triangulum Hondurensis Albino Twoheads Eating 11-17-11 A3 Web This is an X-ray of a two-headed albino Honduran milk snake that recently hatched at the home of University of Central Florida biologist Daniel Parker, proprietor of Sunshine Serpents. (via The Telegraph)

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  • Marktech

    I’m not normally one for cute names, but I kind of hope they call it Zaphod.

    • http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith

      I am sure that snake is smarter than Zaphod.

  • http://twitter.com/Listener43 Listener43

    I recall one summer back in the 90s when my brother and I managed to interbreed coral snakes and planaria. The result looked much like this fellow. We called him Frank.

  • Donald Petersen

    It’s not quite Monster X.  Sure looks like it could be Monster Y.

  • Brainspore

    It’s a baby Hydra. Just don’t start chopping any of those things off or you’ll just end up with another mouth to feed.

  • http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

    The weird thing is each head has only one fork of the tongue.

  • theophrastvs

    The junction point of the vertebrae sure looks like a fused mess.  They should try an MRI to get a view of the esophagi and tracheaeaeaeae..

  • eldueno

    D0es it get to vote twice as some other Florida voters do?

  • gwailo_joe

    I’m just impressed with how tasty that snake looks: orange creamsicle with a strawberry swirl…

    or maybe watermelon. yum. I’m tellin’ ya, that is one delicious snake.

    Notwithstanding the snake part…

  • Teller

    Was gonna do a Strauss-Kahn beat but couldn’t figure it out.

  • http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

    Why do two-headed snakes always seem to bifurcate near the heads? Why not ever near the end of the tail?

    • not a doktor

      I think they still have rudimentary shoulder bones/vertebrae and that’s where the split goes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/RhiLx Rhiannon RhingaLinge Linge-Bro

    i want it! it’s so kyoooooot!

  • menurunkan_berat_badan

    wow .. very awesome God’s creation is a snake

  • Vnend

    I am amazed by the color.  It looks like a Sculpy figure after the artist ran out of all the ‘natural’ colors.