Cases of polycephaly tend to make the news or go viral because of just how rare a phenomenon it is – to the point where, back in 2006, an American aquarium attempted to auction off a two-headed ...

Polycephaly occurs when an organism has multiple heads. Polycephalic organisms can be described as single beings that feature an above average amount of a body part or as two beings sharing a body ...

Nick Evans, a South Africa-based snake rescuer, was asked to collect the two-headed Southern Brown Egg-eater—a harmless species—from a man who had come across the snake in his garden.. The man ...

Most animals with polycephaly barely survive a few days, making Ditto's nine months hugely unexpected. More recently, a two-headed pig made headlines in 2020 after being born in the Philippines.

The two-headed snake is a result of a rare mutation called polycephaly, which means “many heads.” The shop says both heads are active, but one head appears to be the main controller of the body.

A group of beach volunteers stumbled upon a two-headed baby sea turtle in South Carolina. The ”two-headed hatchling is the result of a genetic mutation,” the patrollers’ official Facebook ...

Polycephaly (i.e., having multiple heads) is a phenomenon that many different species of animal occasionally exhibit (most commonly snakes and turtles), and it is sufficiently unusual that ...

The turtle, born with a condition called polycephaly, was first found by a resident in Williamsburg, Virginia It was given to the Virginia Living Museum, which has adopted the turtle to care for ...