Two Headed Snakes – Strange Creatures

How many of us believe in the existence of two headed snakes? Well, as with any living creature, they do exist and are a much more common sight than any other two headed animals.

While a normal snake gives most people the creeps, the sight of a two headed snake must be tremendously gruesome, but captivating. In truth, two headed snakes are merely conjoined twins, connected to each other via their organs or body parts as with other twins that are connected. This means that a two headed snake could be joined to the other sharing the same organs, but one being a parasitic head.

The birth of Siamese or conjoined twins occur when the embryo splits while developing and growing into identical twins, but for some reason does not complete the process of splitting before they are born. The point at which the embryo stops separating varies with each birth therefore, snakes can be joined at any part of the body. Knowing about the life of a two headed snake has been made possible by studies of captured specimens although it has been found that the life of most two headed snakes is very difficult.

The Man with the Widest Mouth in the World

The Man with the Widest Mouth in the World, his name is Francisco Domingo Joaquim form angola, this man was given the title of the 'World's Widest Mouth' by Guinness World Records. No wonder, his mouth is 6.69 inches wide and can fit in a Coca-Cola can sideways. It’s just crazy.

Craziest Transportation In Jakarta Indonesia

Craziest Transportation In Jakarta indonesia, may be this picture only in jakarta indonesia Every day, about three hundred trains are bringing people from surrounding towns to work to Jakarta. But still, there’s a big lack for places

World's Biggest Roller Coaster-"Millenium Force"

You want a little excitement in your life. But not any ordinary boring excitement. But flight abnormal fear and adrenaline. The right thing for you is the Millennium Force. Construction of the attraction Millenium Force at a cost of $ 20 million, but it was worth it. In his first season after the opening of his visit about 2 million people.

Attraction immediately broke 10 world records: he became the fastest, highest, longest and most extreme overload. Millennium Force is a steel roller coaster built by Intamin AG located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. It is the fourteenth roller coaster built at the park since the Blue Streak opened in 1964. Standing 310 feet tall at its highest point, the coaster overlooks Lake Erie.

When built in 2000, it was the first roller coaster to be taller than 300 feet, and it was briefly the tallest complete circuit roller coaster in the world, before being beaten by Steel Dragon 2000, Cedar Point’s own Top Thrill Dragster, and Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure.

it is the longest steel roller coaster in the United States. The only two roller coasters in the United States longer than Millennium Force are The Beast and Son of Beast, wooden roller coasters at Kings Island. It is also the first roller coaster to utilize a cable lift system, rather than a traditional chain lift.

A potential chain lift was considered too heavy considering that Magnum XL-200’s chain was 7 short tons and two-thirds as tall. The cable lift uses an 800-horsepower motor that turns a set of sprocket gears that pulls the cable. Cable lifts were previously only used on smaller coasters in Europe.

After the 2007 season, Millennium Force had given over twelve million rides total. Riders must be at least 48 inches tall to ride. Millennium Force has been voted the number one steel roller coaster in the world in Amusement Today’s Golden Ticket awards five times since the year 2001, and has never been ranked lower than number two since it opened in 2000.

Millennium Force has switched the top position with Bizarro at Six Flags New England, a hypercoaster of very similar construction, three times in the last seven years. Today, Millennium Force is no longer the tallest or fastest roller coaster at Cedar Point, having been surpassed in height and speed by Top Thrill Dragster.

Animals That Show Mother Nature’s Sense

You’ve heard jokes like these all your life: What do you get if you cross an octopus with a cow? An animal that can milk itself. I didn’t find such an animal, but the world has plenty of strange species that at first glance appear to be hybrids of unrelated species because they have attributes that surprise us. However, we are only surprised because our personal experiences don’t encompass all that nature offers.

1. Turtle + Hedgehog = Armadillo

Rudyard Kipling wrote the story The Beginning of the Armadillos, in which the animal came from a tortoise and a hedgehog. They didn’t join to give birth to armadillos; instead, they taught each other their talents. The hedgehog helped the tortoise learn to curl into a ball, and the tortoise taught the hedgehog to swim, which toughened up his spines into armor. Before they knew it, both had turned into armadillos.

2. Giraffe + Zebra = Okapi

The okapi (Okapia johnstoni) appears to be a short giraffe with a zebra’s legs tacked as an afterthought. The animal, which lives only in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (and in zoos), is actually related to the giraffe but was “shorted” in the neck department. To make up for that oversight, the okapi has a tongue long enough to lick its own ears! The zebra stripes are thought to be used as camouflage, and to make it easy for okapi young to follow their mothers through the rain forest.

3. Anteater + Armadillo = Pangolin

The pangolin is also known as the spiny anteater. They are mammals, but have keratin scales over their bodies. They roll up into a ball in defense like an armadillo or a hedgehog. Recent genetic studies show that pangolins are related to neither anteaters (despite the fact that they eat ants) nor armadillos. But the weirdness doesn’t stop there: pangolins can spray a nasty musk just like a skunk. And they don’t have any teeth!

4. Bird + Fox = Fruit Bat

Fruit bats encompass several species and are also called megabats or flying foxes. What sets fruit bats apart from your garden variety insect-eating belfry-hangers is the fact that most fruit bats do not use echolocation to get around. They need their eyes big and their noses long to sense where they are going, so their faces look like more familiar land mammals -particularly dogs. No doubt that’s where the term flying fox came from. If you couldn’t see a fruit bat’s wings, you might have a hard time guessing the species.

5. Duck + Beaver = Platypus

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) of Australia looks like a taxidermy experiment in which a mammal has been accessorized with a beaver’s tail, a duck’s bill, the venom of a snake, and the feet of an otter. This animal is not related to any of the others, however. The platypus is a monotreme. It shares that order with only four other species which are all echidnas. It is truly unique in the animal kingdom, and the most likely of any in this list to be an example of God’s sense of humor.

6. Hoop Snake + Lizard = Armadillo Girdled Lizard

This lizard might be what people saw when they came up with the legend of the hoop snake (featured in a previous post). You don’t find too many lizards that protect themselves by rolling into a ball, but the Armadillo Girdled Lizard (Cordylus cataphractus) does just that. This lizard grabs its tail with its mouth and forms a ring with its spines pointing out. Any predator will have a hard time figuring this thing out, much less eating it! The name is just a descriptor; this lizard has no relation to an armadillo, which is a mammal.