{"id":457353,"date":"2026-06-02T16:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/457353\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:25:19","slug":"meet-calmaria-incredibilis-the-two-headed-snake-from-china-that-fooled-scientists-for-years-until-dna-proved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/457353\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Calmaria Incredibilis: The two-headed snake from China that fooled scientists for years until DNA proved it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snakes are interesting and scary creatures. While they have a revered image in various cultures across the world, and are regarded as deities in mythological texts, spotting one of these slitherers sends chills down a person\u2019s spine.<\/p>\n<p>One of these snake breeds discovered in China seems to have stepped out of a myth.<\/p>\n<p>A \u2018two-headed snake\u2019!<\/p>\n<p>While this type of slitherer has been a part of several legends, how much of it is actually true? Let\u2019s dig in to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Photos via study: An unexpected discovery of hidden diversity: a new species of the genus Calamaria H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827 (Squamata, Calamariidae) from Guangxi, China<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snakes are interesting and scary creatures. While they have a revered image in various cultures across the world,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,232398,9538,232400,232399,232397,406],"class_list":["post-457353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-snake-in-the-wild","tag-snakes","tag-snkae","tag-two-headed-chinese-snake","tag-two-headed-snake","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}