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Despite being neither a snake nor penile, when a crew of engineers building a dam in the Amazon recently discovered an Atretochoana Eiselti, better known as a caecilian, many dubbed it the ‘penis snake’, and it’s easy to see why. Yet this phallic squirmer isn’t a snake at all but an extremely rare, limbless amphibian.
According to biologist Julian Tupan, six of the creatures were found when they were draining a portion of the Madeira River in Brazil as part of the dam building project.
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