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Blunthead Slug (mander.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] enkille@lemmy.world 65 points 10 months ago

those poor unfortunate souls! Ursula's Garden from The Little Mermaid

[-] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah. Apparently it's called a slug snake because it EATS slugs, not because it looks like one.

Which is good, because it looks like a stick. Literally the most twig-ass looking snake ever.

[-] Xuderis@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Great camouflage!

[-] Sphks@jlai.lu 7 points 10 months ago

Unlike many other snakes, this species eats snails and slugs using a technique called mandibular sawing. To slice off the indigestible parts of prey, it slides its jaws back and forth like a saw.

[-] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wild! (Also, you doubled-commented somehow)

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Twice the snake facts!

[-] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 6 points 10 months ago

It looks dry af. Like those rain worms that didn't make it back in time and dried on the asphalt

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ngl, while it is definitely weird as hell, it has a surreal beauty because of it.

It's also like what you'd get if a kid only had brown crayons, drew a snake, and then developed the power to bring their drawings to life.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Thing looks like a bad taxidermy of a regular snake.

[-] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A good effort at an balloon animal would result in better taxidermy

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 13 points 10 months ago

I am just a monkey climbing on these trees and I will grab this vine which is definitely not a snake. Can't wait to see my monkey wife and monkey child in my monkey home. Oh, I've made an error.