Two headed jungle just hatched!

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There is a healthy two headed snake at San Diego Zoo.
 
What is the cause of this? Just a freak mutation or something gone wrong during incubation? Pity that it died, but I guess it was for the best in the long run.
 
I'm assuming that the cells didn't split properly during mitosis (cells reproducing) had they done so, there would've most likely been a set of twins instead of conjoined (Siamese) twins with major defects resulting in death... Is that about right? Very limited knowledge on this kind of thing so please correct me if I'm wrong...
 
It's amazing that it can live and develop that long in the egg, but not for 5 minutes outside of it. Life is crazy. Video is sad. Thanks for sharing though.
 
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