Two-headed albino snake up for sale

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- At a desired price of $150,000, the World Aquarium in St. Louis is offering a sort of twofer -- a two-headed albino rat snake, appropriately named "We."

Actually, the price for We is $150,000 or the best offer, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The 6 1/2-half-year-old female snake has been in the aquarium since 1999, when the facility paid $15,000 to buy it from its previous. At the time, it was felt such snakes cannot survive for long.

But We, now a 4-foot-long, 1-inch-thick, reptile, proved everyone wrong and remains healthy, says the report.

Aquarium President Leonard Sonnenschein said We survived because, unlike other two-headed animals, both her mouths are connected to the same stomach. Proceeds from her sale would go for education, research and conservation.

A Harvard University zoologist said We should live another 10 to 15 years.