FTFA: The ... species ... is not endangered, but researchers say it's poorly understood.

So we're back to the racist, homophobic white males again?

 

FTA: The creatures, referred to as Erpeton tentaculatus in the scientific community, are relatively small, growing to about 20-35 inches (50-90 centimeters) in length, and they're the only snakes with two short tentacles on their snouts, which allow the reptiles to sense vibrations from fish that swim by.

If I were swimming and a 2-3 foot snake with farking tentacles swam by me, I wouldn't think it was "relatively small."

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I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going...

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ah, perfect!

Here is a better pic

Wrong book.

Everybody chill the fark out. I got this.

WTF is that snake's problem?

Means we have some pretty cool biological diversity on this planet ;)

Cryptozoology FTW

It means Sam Neil is going to try to become the U.S. ambassador to Britain
/obscure?

The All-Powerful Atheismo: It means Sam Neil is going to try to become the U.S. ambassador to Britain
/obscure?

This is Fark, so no

Snapper Carr: The All-Powerful Atheismo: It means Sam Neil is going to try to become the U.S. ambassador to Britain
/obscure?

This is Fark, so no

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I know, I just wanted you to reply.
I'm so lonely.

OK, we've seen the snakies with barbules like catfish.

Many of us have seen pics of Asian lung...which are traditionally depicted with barbules like catfish.

I still insist that this means we're soon going to have a big scalybutt mofo as CEO of BMW and another having his own talk show :D...not the end of the world, just the magical cycle resetting, that's all :D

Alternatively, if you believed the old stories of why Korean dragons only have four toes and Japanese dragons only three, maybe the poor things just ran out of piggies with distance :D

/still, very very neat looking things and I hope that the zoo breeding programs do well with them
//were they not relatively new to scientific study/herpeculture I'd want a moustached snaky like this
///as it is, I will be happily spending the weekend playing Shadowrun so this is relevant to my interests

Obviously a Tzeentch cult is active in Washington. Better call the inquisition.

Snakes with tentacles are from Asia? Someone get Rick Romero on this.

IT MEANS I AM COMING

/bring beer

four years of unsuccessful breeding

And I thought I had trouble finishing sometimes....

Brain spiders!!!

This will not end well:

Cool- they're harmless, really sweet little snakes.

I just wanted to take an opportunity to point out how cool it is that we have all these awesome names for groups of animals. Some of my favorites:

Gaggle. Shrewdness, Murder, Intrusion, Parliament... and of course... Sloth.

/And yes... I know a "clutch" is baby snakes.

I know how to get us out of this!

Klaatu! Barada! Nickolodean!

Are they gone now?

It means either Samuel L Jackson or Ice Cube are going to have to have a talk with their agents before this SyFy gets wind of this.

REJOICE! REJOICE! FOR THE SON OF FSM IS BORN!

pretty sly fellows.
Trick fish to swim into their mouth

i've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

Pray 4 Mojo: I just wanted to take an opportunity to point out how cool it is that we have all these awesome names for groups of animals. Some of my favorites:

Gaggle. Shrewdness, Murder, Intrusion, Parliament... and of course... Sloth.

/And yes... I know a "clutch" is baby snakes.

My favorites are for cats: 'Glaring' what they often do to me... or 'Destruction,' what I often want to do to them.

Hey guys! What's going on in this thread?

Bible? Wrong deity, wrong book.

Try De Vermis Mysteriis.

/ in no way obscure

If they were to put miniature pants on their heads, would they be retarded?

FTA: Apparently, their nervous systems allow them to predict where a fish prey will end up when startled.

So if these snakes eat all the predictable fish, will that mean that we end up with edgy, unpredictable fish?

But how do they taste? Recipes needed.

Oh? A republican snake?

Mister Peejay: If they were to put miniature pants on their heads, would they be retarded?

No, just decent.

CSM101: i've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

Arumat: I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going...

See?

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I love old engravings (etchings?) like that. Where is that from? Mostly because I'm curious why the two guys referenced by the L are just laying there like they're indifferent with whatever the fark that thing is raging behind them.

from Southeast Asia

Figures. Do they have anything in Asia that isn't weird, scary and wanting to destroy the world?

OMG, they are so CUTE!

I thought the headline said testicles, and I know for a fact it would have meant that Obama had negotiated a deal between the gays and Satan to break into our homes and convert us all into fairies by making us drink liters of their sulfuric semen over the course of months.

But it said tentacles, so it means they'll brainwash us by jamming cocks into every hole in our skull to baste our brains directly with their lewd lotion.

abhorrent1: from Southeast Asia

Figures. Do they have anything in Asia that isn't weird, scary and wanting to destroy the world?

Pandas...

I am disappointed. Thought when it said tentacles that we had a mini-gorgon look happening. This, it more like HORNS than tentacles. :(

Deep Contact: But how do they taste? Recipes needed.

My roommate tried to grill a black racer last night. It did not go well.

cyks: FTA: The creatures, referred to as Erpeton tentaculatus in the scientific community, are relatively small, growing to about 20-35 inches (50-90 centimeters) in length, and they're the only snakes with two short tentacles on their snouts, which allow the reptiles to sense vibrations from fish that swim by.

If I were swimming and a 2-3 foot snake with farking tentacles swam by me, I wouldn't think it was "relatively small."

I would be too busy screaming to take an accurate measurement.

starsrift: Bible? Wrong deity, wrong book.

Try De Vermis Mysteriis.

/ in no way obscure

The Kitab al Azif would probably be a superior reference.

/If you read Arabic
//And make the SAN check

Prepare for a thousand years of darkness.

/Thanks for the warning, Chuck!

I wish I had a tentacle moustache. It could twirl itself!