September 7, 2019

Anna Murray 

Two employees working with Herpetological Associates in Burlington County recently discovered a rare double-headed rattlesnake in the forests of New Jersey, USA.

 
Herpetological Associates is a company specializing in reptiles and birds, and one researcher, Dave Schneider, has 19 years of experience in reptiles. After he missed the first opportunity to discover and check the double-headed snake, he and his colleagues waited for this special creature again, thinking that it would come back for sunbathing. And things happened as they expected. The snake showed again.

 
This two-headed rattlesnake does not look like a typical rattlesnake. When it moves, the body gets stuck because two heads want to move in different directions. The CEO of the association said this was originally a rattlesnake that wanted to become a twin, but there was a mutation to have such a creature.

 
According to the National Geographic, such species are difficult to survive in the wild, because such genetic abnormalities will make the snake obstructed in capturing prey

 
Now this rattlesnake is kept in the organization. Dave Schneider’s team wants to check if the rattlesnake is healthy through X-ray inspection.

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