Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and seeing a snake.  Pretty frightening, right?  Well, imagine if you’re Dean Qiongxiu from Suining, China.  Not only did the 66-year-old woman find a snake, she found the snake clinging to her wall.  Not by its teeth, by its foot.  So shocked was she that she grabbed a shoe and beat the mutant monster to death; fortunately, she kept its body preserved in alcohol.

As we speak, the 16-inch-long snake is being studied at West Normal University in Nanking by top scientists.  Mutations are common in snakes, but the most common is two-headed snakes.  These mutants rarely live long in the wild, but maybe the hand gave the snake an advantage in areas other than massage therapy.  Perhaps, say, allowing it to control a commercial airliner?

I was told many years ago that, once upon a time, all snakes had arms and legs, but that over the course of years of evolution, snakes lost the limbs and became the belly-crawling beasts that we know and loathe today.  I’m not sure how that’d be beneficial, but maybe it makes it easier to hide from predators (or potential prey).

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