A Three-Eyed Snake Has Been Discovered in a Small Australian Town
You can find snakes in Australia just about anywhere. At the beach. In your car. But this three-eyed slitherer discovered within the dominion is clearly all types of special.
Found by rangers near atiny low town called Humpty Doo just outside of Darwin, the three-eyed carpet python looks to be sporting three fully functioning eyes – with an abnormal surplus eye sprouting from the highest of its scaled forehead.
From time to time, we see snakes with polycephaly within the wild – the condition of getting two separate heads – but the rangers don't think that is the case here.
A subsequent X-ray of the reptile revealed 'Monty' (as the rangers nicknamed him) doesn't have two separate heads forged together – but rather one skull featuring a bonus cavum, giving the python a handy, vertically oriented peeper.
"It was generally agreed that the attention likely developed very early during the embryonic stage of development," territorial dominion Parks and Wildlife explains in a very Facebook post.
"It is extremely unlikely that this is often from environmental factors and is nearly certainly a natural occurrence as malformed reptiles are relatively common."
Sadly, while the all-seeing sense organ may need enabled Monty various advantages during his lifetime (like spying threats from above), it had been also ultimately the top of him; the snake was discovered in March but died last week while still only a juvenile.
"It's remarkable it had been able to survive ciao within the wild with its deformity, and he was struggling to feed before he died last week," ranger Ray Chatto told NT News.
RIP Monty. we will only wonder at the items you saw.
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