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Snakes hatching ending?????

posted 11 years ago by mhenderson22
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So while reading the goofs I came across this goof "At the end of the movie as a final scare we see eggs that are being hatched. Anacondas are oviviparous - their eggs hatch inside them and the young come out of the mother immediately after, giving the illusion of a live birth. However, the snake in the movie is a fictitious species which can be an egg layer if the writers say so."

I also noticed a person in a post mention this scene. I have never seen it- does it exist? Is it only in the syfi version of the movie that is supposed to contain deleted scenes? sorry if this has been discussed already, but I did not see a post on it.

[–] Duke_NukeAss 11 years ago

No it's in all forms of the movie I've seen. It's a quick scene while Jlo is running from the large snake, just before the smoke stack I believe, she enters a room and you see a nest of eggs with babies in it.

[–] spookyrat1 11 years ago

...she enters a room and you see a nest of eggs with babies in it.

As dumb as placing the sequel in Borneo, where there are no anacondas. That's Hollywood!

[–] ProfessorFrink79 11 years ago

"At the end of the movie as a final scare we see eggs that are being hatched. Anacondas are oviviparous - their eggs hatch inside them and the young come out of the mother immediately after, giving the illusion of a live birth. However, the snake in the movie is a fictitious species which can be an egg layer if the writers say so." - Well, that's all kinds of wrong.

1. The word is ovoviviparous, not oviviparous.

2. The eggs do not 'hatch' inside the mother. They simply stay inside her, with no shells, whilst the young develop.

3. It is not an 'illusion of live birth'. It IS live birth - the young emerge from the mother alive.

4. The snake in the movie is not a fictitious species - it's never suggested that it is. It is a green anaconda, Eunectes murinus. Also, even if it was a fictitious species, all members of the family Boidae (to which anacondas belong) produce live young. No anaconda of any kind would lay eggs.

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[–] mhenderson22 10 years ago

Not my words- just copied and pasted from Goofs page.
- My question was does this scene exist- There is only one scene with baby snakes and those are not hatching or anything, they are just slithering around in a room.