This terrifying snake has a tail that looks like a spider

This is weird, ATS. I want to bring to here cause I know some of you here will get a kick out of this. Short article and short video.

Thanks to Animal Planet for bringing our attention to this snake's bizarre, unsettlingly realistic spider tail. It so closely resembles a spider, in fact, that when scientists first spotted it in Iran in 1968, they initially assumed there was a solifuge (a close relative of a spider) clinging to its tail.

Mother nature never ceases to amaze! What say ATS?

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a reply to: lostbook

Awesome adaptation!

Nature will never cease to amaze

Here's the photo's for those that don't want to go to the link

Here ya go


Nasty if you have a phobia of spiders AND snakes

a reply to: VoidHawk

Oops, sorry void, I was editing my post with the photo just as you posted yours.

EDIT: there. I took the one you posted out

originally posted by: Ghost147
a reply to: VoidHawk

Oops, sorry void, I was editing my post with the photo just as you posted yours.

EDIT: there. I took the one you posted out

LOL no probs, just doing the same as you and helping those who dont follow links.

a reply to: VoidHawk

Her you go .

a reply to: Ghost147
Wow! That is pretty darn scary cool. So glad I have no intention of visiting Iran. (shivers!)

Gah I don't have a phobia but that's bloody creepy.

What? No clown makeup?

Animals can be creepy.

Amazing I would never have imagined..maybe related to the rattlesnake.

Man I hate spiders and this makes it even worse.

Sometimes, being bit by a radioactive spider doesn't work out quite right.

poor baby birds

a reply to: VictorVonDoom

It aint easy being Peter Viper

And here's its cousin:

a reply to: lostbook

What a bizzaro creature...nice one ...thx for sharing.....

And there is no doubt after seeing that i have even less love for both snakes and spiders......

originally posted by: Kromlech
And here's its cousin:

That could be a nice cryptid.

Neat adaption to have. Nature never ceases to amaze.