#2 headed snake

[bungleart]

[mindblowingscience]

Two-headed snake a unique find for herpetology lab

He has questions such as how its neurology works, how it has survived this long, and if it can survive with both heads.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's herpetology lab is seeing double after securing a two-headed garter snake.

The newborn bicephalic garter snake was discovered by Joshua Marshall of Hastings while clearing brush in Clay Center on Sept. 4.

"I lifted up a log and wasn't surprised to see two small snakes, but then I realized that they weren't making great progress because there were two heads," he said.

Once Marshall realized it was a two-headed snake, he placed it in a jar and reached out to a local conservationist. The call led him to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Dennis Ferraro, assistant professor of practice in herpetology, who happened to be doing fieldwork at Cedar Point Station. Ferraro was able to retrieve the snake during the evening of Sept. 4.

"The snake is as rare as about one in 100,000," Ferraro said.

Ferraro said this is only the second time he's had a two-headed snake in his lab, which he's led for more than 20 years.

What makes this snake even more unique is that the split heads extend down past the necks.

"Usually when snakes have two heads one will take over," he said. "This one has two necks, which means that neither will become dominant. The two heads operate independently and eat independently. This would have made it difficult to survive in the wild."

There is also at least a centimeter of spine connected to each head, before it merges into one.

"I don't know what's controlling its back half," Ferraro said.

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[ladystarlights]

Snetch (snake sketch)

[fireproofphoenix]

Rare 2-headed copperhead snake discovered

[typhlonectes]

A two-headed Southern Copperhead found in home garden in Virginia, USA.

Two-headed, or bicephalic, snakes do show up from time to time. Their formation occurs via the same process that produces conjoined twins in humans, a single zygote splits in two as though to produce identical twins, but doesn't quite make it all the way...

Read more: https://www.thisisinsider.com/virginia-rare-two-headed-copperhead-snake-2018-9

[amanda-fior]

Australian animals just got even scarier - 2 headed snake

Read the article here (or watch the video like I did, also in the link):

http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/3724457/siamese-samurai-snakes/?cs=53#slide=14

[belovedlittlelamb]

Current obsession: 2 headed snakes Belovedlittlelamb.co

[biomorphosis]

This is a two-headed albino milksnake [x]. Each head has a brain and able to control over the shared body, causing difficulty in movement. Luckily, they shared the same stomach, snakes with separate stomachs will often fight and bite each other over the prey if one head has prey in its mouth.

In the wild, two-headed snake lifespan may be restricted significantly for they cannot escape predators well but despite this, two-headed snakes can lived up to 20 years in captivity.