© Nick KiriazisArkansas State University is home to a two-headed turtle and a two-headed snake, both found in Arkansas.
Arkansas State University assistant herpetology professor Lori Neuman-Lee isn't scared of reptiles — but she never thought she'd be studying two-headed ones.
Since she joined the faculty about a month ago, her lab has become home to a snake and a turtle found in Arkansas that have four heads between them.
On Sept. 6, an electric worker found a two-headed rattlesnake outside a home on Arkansas 248. The snake was brought to Forrest L. Wood Crowley's Ridge Nature Center in Jonesboro, then given to Neuman-Lee.
When Neuman-Lee went to pick up the snake Sept. 8, she said, facility director Shaun Merrell asked if she was interested in another reptile—
a two-headed snapping turtle found on a farm near Little Rock."I said, 'Sure,'" she said with a laugh. The turtle was in her lab less than a week later.
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