SOURCE: The Moon Maid (Argosy All-Story Weekly, May 5 1923) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

DESCRIPTION: "...Upon the ground near the ship we had seen but a single creature, though the moving grasses had assured us that there were others there aplenty. The thing that we had seen had been plainly visible to us all and may be best described as a five-foot snake with four frog-like legs, and a flat head with a single eye in the center of the forehead. Its legs were very short, and as it moved along the ground it both wriggled like a true snake and scrambled with its four short legs. We watched it to the edge of the river and saw it dive in and disappear beneath the surface." (The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs)

NOTES: The Rympth of Van-ah, the interior world of the Moon seem weird but as the narrator points out they are basically similar to Earthly snakes. They are not edible for humans. To call someone a "rympth" in Van-ah is the lowest insult. The Tor-ho eats rympth's, making its bite posionous.

HISTORY: Burroughs uses the snake as a sample of how Lunar life forms are built along similar lines to earth creatures and there is a strong possibility of human-like life forms.