Two-headed snake found in Spain Posted by Scott Manning on April 05, 2002 | Comments (0)

Scientists studying a two-headed snake found in Spain have two major questions: Does one head boss the other around? Will the creature ever find a mate? The star attraction of the University of Valencia's zoology lab these days is a 25½-centimetre ladder snake, a nonpoisonous species native to Spain, Portugal and France. A farmer in Spain's southeast Alicante province found the snake in February, and it was transferred to Valencia last week. It now lives in a terrarium with a video camera filming every flicker of its two tongues and four eyes.

So far both heads seem to work fine, and move independently, said Vicente Roca, a University of Valencia zoologist taking part in the study.Full Story...