Nov 2, 2018
I’m trying very hard to think of something interesting and educational to say about this specimen, but my brain keeps repeating “It’s a snake head! It’s a snake head in a jar! How cool is that?!”
So there you have it. This is an Emerald Tree Boa (Corallus caninus) head, in a jar. The head itself is only a few inches long, but this species of snake can grow to around 2 meters (6 feet) in length.
I don’t know where the rest of the snake is.
Museums are incredible places.
Photo credit: Kaitie Janecke Soltesz