Yes... you are seeing it correctly. That is indeed a snake with a leg and a clawed foot. The snake's discovery story seriously sounds like it should have been included as a deleted scene on the Slither DVD.
Submitted for your approval... 66-year-old Duan Qiongxiu was sleeping soundly in her bed on what should have been a normal night in Suining, Southwest China. She was startled from her slumber by a strange scratching sound coming from the darkness of the room.
Says Mrs. Duan; "I turned on the light and saw this monster working its way along the wall using his claw."
Apparently, Mrs. Duan was so terrified by her discovery that she beat the snake to death with a shoe. Personally, had it been me, I not only would have bludgeoned the snake to death, but I probably would have razed the entire house to the ground for fear that this thing had bred and its offspring were gestating in the walls.
The leg/claw appears to be a mutation and not part of some freakish new species that would no doubt find itself the center of a Mystery Science 3000 feature. While mutations are not completely uncommon in snakes, they appear more often as a second head which forms similarly to how Siamese twins are developed in humans. These animals often have very little chance of survival in the wild mostly due to the fact that the heads tend to attack each other.
You know, I don't really recall animal mutations being a huge syllabus topic in any of my science class lectures. I am sure it was touched on but if the photo above was ever shown amongst slides of cute tree frogs or happy lil' clown fish, I would probably never set foot into a park or nature preserve again.
Queerdos wishes Mrs. Duan a bright and happy future but we hope she keeps in mind that they now know where she lives and are probably less than happy that she killed one of their own.
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