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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The image looks like our distant ancestor there is crawling in from another dimension, the way the water still encloses its body so high up... or at least like it portaled over from a deep ocean part of the ocean floor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

and one eye looks like its on top of the head.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the artist just screwed it up, but there's a snake species that really does have eyes positioned like that, on top of its head. Arabian sand boa:

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

That snake looks dumb as hell. Evolution really fucked with them. It looks like a puppet made by a child when you just describe a snake and they've never seen one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unless that snake is endangered it is doing just fine and is adapted over millennia to be built that way and thus live it's best life

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Yup, it's so it can hide under the sand and still see prey.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

On behalf of the snake: no u