Two-Headed Albino Garter Snake Steals Basel Show

News  //  February 4, 2011

A two-headed albino Checkered Garter Snake is the star of an exhibition of odd animals in Basel, Switzerland, the Sun and Metro UK report. There are only eight bicephalic snakes in the world, the snake’s owner claims, and this is the only albino.

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