Chinese dragon does exist

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nace186

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Snake with foot found in China

Dean Qiongxiu, 66, said she discovered the reptile clinging to the wall of her bedroom with its talons in the middle of the night.

"I woke up and heard a strange scratching sound. I turned on the light and saw this monster working its way along the wall using his claw," said Mrs Duan of Suining, southwest China.

Mrs Duan said she was so scared she grabbed a shoe and beat the snake to death before preserving its body in a bottle of alcohol.

The snake ? 16 inches long and the thickness of a little finger ? is now being studied at the Life Sciences Department at China's West Normal University in Nanchang.

Snake expert Long Shuai said: "It is truly shocking but we won't know the cause until we've conducted an autopsy."

A more common mutation among snakes is the growth of a second head, which occurs in a similar way to the formation of Siamese twins in humans.

Such animals are often caught and preserved as lucky tokens but have very little chance of surviving in the wild anyway, especially as the heads have a tendency to attack each other.

It's kinda disturbing...Is it still a snake if it has a foot?
 

spidey07

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Yes. Most all snakes still have resemblances of feet on their body. Kind of like we humans still have a tail bone.
 

WelshBloke

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A more common mutation among snakes is the growth of a second head, which occurs in a similar way to the formation of Siamese twins in humans.
Such animals are often caught and preserved as lucky tokens but have very little chance of surviving in the wild anyway, especially as the heads have a tendency to attack each other.

That made me laugh for some reason. :laugh:
 

Crono

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Will it grant wishes if I bring it 7 balls?

Damn, that thing is scary looking. We better hope snakes don't grow to monstrous proportions, develop legs and wings at the same time. Then we'll have snakes outside a plane :Q
 

Rumpltzer

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I'm waiting for the zombies to rise. I'm pretty sure it's going to happen first in China.
 
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