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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:

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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.

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:(

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On behalf of the snake: no u

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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

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

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