FUKUOKAMay 08 (News about Japan) – A two-headed snake, a rare curiosity, was discovered in the mountains of Kitakyushu city in Fukuoka Prefecture.
The man who found it on April 4 described his initial reaction as subdued: “At first I thought in a very calm way, ‘Wow, this is amazing.’ But when I looked at it, I realized that it is extremely rare. , perhaps one in tens of thousands, I began to realize how incredible this find was, and the shock came later.”
The snake, which had already died, was about 20 centimeters long.
After contacting a museum, the man was urged to bring in the specimen. โThe museum staff told me it was a baby mamushi viper, born just this year and not yet fully grown,โ he said.
Source: ANN