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Hereafter, the heads of two Burmese pythons and one ball python were examined using \u03bc<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CT<\/jats:styled-content>, and another Burmese python was subjected to<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">MRI<\/jats:styled-content>. Following these procedures, the heads of these four pythons along with the heads of an additional three Burmese pythons were prepared for histology.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>All eight snakes had left ocular openings seen as dermal invaginations between 0.2 and 2.0\u00a0mm in diameter. They also had varying degrees of malformations of the orbital bones and a limited presence of nervous, glandular, and muscle tissue in the posterior orbit. Two individuals had small but identifiable eyes. Furthermore, remnants of the pigmented embryonic framework of the hyaloid vessels were found in the anophthalmic snakes. 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