Florida’s latest salvo in the Bingo game that is 2020 is a two-headed snake.
Images of the snake were posted to the FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute’s Facebook page.
“A rare two-headed southern black racer was recently found at a residence in Palm Harbor by Kay Rogers and family,” reads the post.
FWC said the split heads on a single body is known as bicephaly, and it occurs while the snake is developing as an embryo “when two monozygotic twins failed to separate, leaving the heads conjoined onto a single body.”
The snake is now in the care of FWC staff.
“Two-headed snakes are unlikely to survive in the wild as the two brains make different decisions that inhibit the ability to feed or escape from predators,” the FWC said.
