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Summary Tennessee wildlife officials surprised by two headed baby snake found in a houses backyard.
When Paul Carver saw what looked like a baby king snake crawling around in the backyard of his Clarksville, TN, home, he did a slight double take.But he was twice as shocked when he saw it had two heads.I was like, What do I do with this thing? I was worried about which head was going to bite me, Carver told a local newspaper.So Carver took the double-domed reptile to Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) officer Dale Grandstaff, who was also surprised by the snake, which has two separate heads with two functioning brains, yet they share the same eight inch body.Ive been doing this for 13 years and been in the woods my whole life, you know nearly 40 years, and Ive never seen anything like this, Grandstaff said. Both tongues work. It has a set of eyes on each head and a mouth on each head.Two heads arent better than one in this case. Grandstaff says the snakes chances of survival in the wild arent very good.
