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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Two-Headed Lizard Found; One Head Hates The Other!

It’s kind of like that old movie with Ray Milland and Rosie Grier, The Thing With Two Heads. Only in this case, rather than some kind of weird science experiment in life-saving and head grafting, you’ve got a weird animal mutation that has resulted in a two-headed bobtail skink, or Shingleback. The
two-heade little critter was found by by workers in a reptile park in
Coogee, New South Wales, and has been sent to Henley Brook animal park
in Perth. Two-headed animals generally don’t live very long, and this
lizard is expected to eventually fight itself to death.
This isn’t a case where a creature has one head that doesn’t really work. This skink has two heads and two sets of forearms, all of which work. However, weirdly, the larger of the two heads doesn’t like the
smaller of the two heads, so the creature is constantly trying to fight
itself! How strange is that?!

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