Male calf born with two heads

[Neverender]

ALDRICH, Mo. (AP) - A southwest Missouri cattleman has been delivering calves at his farm for a long time, but a calf born this week sure was different. This one had two heads. Scott Clift said he delivered the chocolate-colored male calf Wednesday morning at his farm near Aldrich, in Polk County. Clift said the calf had two fully-formed heads that appeared to be connected to its body just behind the skull.

Clift said late Thursday that the calf lived about a day and a half. It was unable to walk, so Clift and his family bottle-fed the animal until it died at 6 p.m. Clift said "We've never seen anything like it."

Few people have, said University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist Eldon Cole. Such births do happen -- the condition is known as polycephaly -- but Cole says "They're pretty darn rare."

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[IAMWILL]

That's frickin' creepy...... pretty awesome though otherwise

[HeroForever]

Whats the chance of that? like 1 in 10 million?

Too bad it didn't live though...

[Mzor203]

I love things like this, they are just sooo amazing. it's a shame it didn't live though, but if it was in pain it was better than to live a painful life.

Anyway, it's amazing what can happen with such complex organisms. It fascinates me.

[Atonement]

I wanna ride it...

[Cloud]

ADDISON ROFLMAO well said
they should do the adult cell cloning on the freaky deaky animals like that cos then thered be lots more and that would e cool

[Mzor203]

ADDISON ROFLMAO well said
they should do the adult cell cloning on the freaky deaky animals like that cos then thered be lots more and that would e cool

Cell cloning wouldn't work here. The DNA that the calf contains would still only be for a one headed calf for the reason that these types of things result from two or more animals fusing together in the womb, basically. Thus any DNA would still be from a one headed calf.

Mutations such as these resulting from DNA mutations are just, pretty much impossible because that have to be one huge error in the DNA sequencing, and the error would have to be just right to produce a viable second head that connected perfectly with the other organs of the body.

Sorry, just had to point that out.

[pizzamon]

Pretty amazing story. You definitely don't hear something like this everyday.

[ManyPearTree]

Lol do each of the heads have their own personality??

[Mzor203]

Lol do each of the heads have their own personality??

Yes, each of the heads has a seperate brain and is part of a seperate organism. They just happen to have been conjoined during birth, to a very extreme extent.

[Halibut]

freakalisious :)