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[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

and one eye looks like its on top of the head.

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 7 months ago

Maybe the artist just screwed it up, but there's a snake species that really does have eyes positioned like that, on top of its head. Arabian sand boa:

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That snake looks dumb as hell. Evolution really fucked with them. It looks like a puppet made by a child when you just describe a snake and they've never seen one.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

On behalf of the snake: no u

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

Unless that snake is endangered it is doing just fine and is adapted over millennia to be built that way and thus live it's best life

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Yup, it's so it can hide under the sand and still see prey.

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