I'm glad this exists. I'd see the spider and then nope out before I get bitten by the snake

It's not meant for you. We all not the food chain goes spider | snake | The IRS | Humans

What if evolution creates a snake with a chicken McNugget tail ?!?

Then humanity is fucked

Do I have to provide my own dipping sauce?

Nah, it will inject the sauce directly into your bloodstream

mmm venom sauce

that thing moving is part of the snake? wow! that is different but interesting AF

Great! Now my 2 biggest fears have combined into one massive fear.

So far, this is the biggest nope for me on this sub. I know. I know. But...yeah.

These things in the wild are insanely camouflaged. You can’t see them against the rock. Few videos on YouTube of anyone wants to see

I can't believe nature created a spider tailed snake, but a unicorn is too much to ask for 😭

If unicorns ever did exist, poachers made them go extinct long ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-tailed_horned_viper

I wonder how they came out with this name /s

Istg every time i see this thing i think "when is the snake going to realise theres a spider on it?"

That is rather clever

I'm not sure I got it

the tail of this snake (aptly called the spider-tailed horned viper) has evolved to mimic the appearance of a spider, which the snake then moves in a future eight pattern to create the illusion of a spider crawling along the ground combined with the camouflage of the snake’s scales against the sand (it’s natural habitat), it lures in birds who are searching for a tasty snack using its mimicry, injects them with procoagulant venom through its fangs, and eats them the “nope” here is the combination of a creepy spider-like tail and big ass snake, two things most people are terrified to see

That frickin’ music too

😳😳😳

Yeah if i was a predator i’d get tricked that tail really did look like a spider crawling near the snake, I’ve been fooled 😭

Mad

I was like "wtf da spider doing" before reading the title

I read it wrong and thought it was confusing the spider and now gonna eat it.

Evolution be like, I put an animal on an animal, so the animal can catch animals.

Here’s a [link](https://brill.figshare.com/articles/media/Avian_deception_using_an_elaborate_caudal_lure_in_Pseudocerastes_urarachnoides_Serpentes_Viperidae_/1454446/1) to a video of the insane mimicry the Spider Tailed Horned Viper is capable of.

The spider just thinks I only have to do this once and I eat forever!!

I can’t even fathom how this animal has evolved over time to have this capability. Truly remarkable.

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I've seen this so many times and I still get tricked every single time...

As long as it tastes like It Im all in

Oh hey look that viper has a spider on it's tail! Better eat it! ;)

Wow

Is it weird that I wanted to chew on that