Snake with foot discovered in china

Dean Qiongxiu, 66, said she discovere
the reptile clinging to the wall of her
bedroom with its talons in the middle of
the night. "I woke up and heard a
strange scratching sound. I turned on
the light and saw this monster working
its way along the wall using his claw,"
said Mrs Duan of Suining, southwest
China.
Mrs Duan said she was so scared she
grabbed a shoe and beat the snake to
death before preserving its body in a
bottle of alcohol.
The snake – 16 inches long and the
thickness of a little finger – is now being
studied at the Life Sciences Department
at China's West Normal University in
Nanchang.
Snake expert Long Shuai said: "It is
truly shocking but we won't know the
cause until we've conducted an
autopsy."
A more common mutation among
snakes is the growth of a second head,
which occurs in a similar way to the
formation of Siamese twins in humans.
Such animals are often caught and
preserved as lucky tokens but have very
little chance of surviving in the wild
anyway, especially as the heads have a
tendency to attack each other.