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Mysterious Viper With a 'Spider' For a Tail Reveals Another Surprise
High-resolution scans showed the viper’s spiderlike tail is made entirely of modified scales, not special bones, researchers said.
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A Viper living in Iran uses a bizarre tail-progress as bait, which looks like a spider. Curious birds end up as a meal so quickly. The CT-scan of a research team also reveals surprising about the tail-end.
For decades, researchers believed that the snake species was simply malformed at the tip of the tail: But in truth, the spider tail viper is a double being with mimicry trick.
·Berlin, Germany
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