- A three-eyed snake has been down a road in the northern Australian town of Humpty Doo .
- Rangers dubbed the unusual serpent “Monty Python” after finding it on a highway in late March.
- X-rays showed all three of its eyes were functioning and the extra socket likely developed naturally while the snake was an embryo, the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission said in a Facebook post, noting that such deformities were common among reptiles.
- The 40cm carpet python was about three months old and died after about a month in captivity.
- According to the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission, the snake is peculiar as an x-ray revealed it was not two separate heads forged together, rather it appeared to be one skull with an additional eye socket and three functioning eyes.
- It was generally agreed that the eye likely developed very early during the embryonic stage of development. It is extremely unlikely that this is from environmental factors and is almost certainly a natural occurrence as malformed reptiles are relatively common.
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