This 3-Eyed Snake Found In The NT Definitely Knows Some Shit We Don’t

People think they know themselves pretty well, but a lot of the time you really can’t guess how you’d react to an extreme situation until you actually do it. In saying that: I know for a fact that if I came across this three-eyed snake in the wild, I would immediately begin worshipping it as a sort of rude god.

Image may contain: outdoorPictured: The snake god that I now worship. (Source: Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife)

According to NT Parks and Wildlife, this 40-centimetre-long juvenile carpet python (now deceased, sadly) wasn’t the product of it being a two-headed snake with a fused skull (polycephaly in snakes is wild), rather it was just in possession of a single skull with three eye sockets and three functioning eyeballs. Jealous much?

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The snake was found by rangers on the Arnhem Highway, near the town of Humpty Doo. NT Parks and Wildlife say that this mutation most likely occurred early on in the embryonic stages of its development, and is probably not a product of environmental factors. It’s not like, say, the radioactive three-eyed fish from The Simpsons, for example.

Ranger Ray Chatto told the NT News that it was “remarkable” that the snake had managed to survive as long as it did, as its mutated head made feeding very difficult.

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Pictured: Tell me your secrets, Snake God. (Source: Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife)

Vale, three-eyed snake. You lived your life like a candle in the wind.

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