Rare and Venomous Snake-Headed Eel Caught on Camera for the First Time, Leaving Netizens Shocked.
According to PV’s research, the first person to share this image on his personal facebook was Mr. Nguyen Phuong D., in Hai Duong.
On his personal facebook page, Mr. D. wrote: “Whoever meets or rains and traps this child, damn it, run away. This snake is Buffalo snake, also known as Hoang snake, very poisonous snake body, very similar to a child’s appearance. This animal, if eaten or hurt by it, it will be very difficult to treat. The characteristic of this animal is that it has two tumors on its head, barks, scorpions, and cheekbones like a cobra.”
Immediately after being posted, the above information was shared and commented by more than 5,000 people with panic and fear.
Answering people’s questions about this strange animal, Lieutenant Colonel – Doctor Vu Ngoc Luong – Deputy Director of Dong Tam Snake Farm in Tien Giang, a leading expert on snakes in Vietnam said: “Look at it. In these pictures, I’m sure it’s not a snake, and I don’t know what it is. Snakes are reptiles, so their skin must be different. The animal in the photo belongs to the eel or catfish family.”
Maybe this is just information about likes and views on social networks, so the image is not accurate. Today’s technology can also edit, so people should not believe in the above images, “said Luong.
Answering PV VTC News, Mr. Pham Van Toan, a snake business and trader for many years in the Northern region also said: “There is no snake like this picture. much smaller and shorter than this animal. Its body is round and its head is also of a different shape.”
“In the past, people circulated the story of snakes pretending to be eels, causing their wives to kill their husbands, making many people believe in this information. However, in my opinion that story is fictional because I have never met many years of trading in this profession. the snake animal that looks like an eel, I haven’t even heard of this animal.
Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (/sɜːrˈpɛntiːz/).[2] Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes’ paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have independently evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs at least twenty-five times via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards.[3] These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae).
Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, and on most smaller land masses; exceptions include some large islands, such as Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, the Hawaiian archipelago, and the islands of New Zealand, as well as many small islands of the Atlantic and central Pacific oceans.[4] Additionally, sea snakes are widespread throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans. Around thirty families are currently recognized, comprising about 520 genera and about 3,900 species.[5] They range in size from the tiny, 10.4 cm-long (4.1 in) Barbados threadsnake[6] to the reticulated python of 6.95 meters (22.8 ft) in length.[7] The fossil species Titanoboa cerrejonensis was 12.8 meters (42 ft) long.[8] Snakes are thought to have evolved from either burrowing or aquatic lizards, perhaps during the Jurassic period, with the earliest known fossils dating to between 143 and 167 Ma ago.[9][10] The diversity of modern snakes appeared during the Paleocene epoch (c. 66 to 56 Ma ago, after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event). The oldest preserved descriptions of snakes can be found in the Brooklyn Papyrus.
Most species of snake are nonvenomous and those that have venom use it primarily to kill and subdue prey rather than for self-defense. Some possess venom that is potent enough to cause painful injury or death to humans. Nonvenomous snakes either swallow prey alive or kill by constriction.
The English word snake comes from Old English snaca, itself from Proto-Germanic *snak-an- (cf. Germanic Schnake ‘ring snake’, Swedish snok ‘grass snake’), from Proto-Indo-European root *(s)nēg-o- ‘to crawl to creep’, which also gave sneak as well as Sanskrit nāgá ‘snake’.[11] The word ousted adder, as adder went on to narrow in meaning, though in Old English næddre was the general word for snake.[12] The other term, serpent, is from French, ultimately from Indo-European *serp- ‘to creep’,[13] which also gave Ancient Greek ἕρπω (hérpō) ‘I crawl’