Video UNBELIEVABLE Mutant Animals

More often than not, millions of steps happen just right to make life come together just as it should. But every now and again, something happens during the development of an embryo, whether it’s completely random or hereditary. This results in physical mutations. Here are some examples of the strangest animal mutations on record.

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4. One-footed Snake
The only thing more terrifying than finding a snake in your bedroom in the dead of night is finding one that has a foot. That is exactly what happened to a woman living in southwest China in 2009. Snakes, by definition, slither along the ground and have no appendages. So, how on earth did this snake end up with a foot complete with horrifying talons? The theory is that snakes did, at one point, have legs, but lost them through evolution or lost them because they convinced Eve to eat the apple. Whatever you believe, the snakes we all know and hate today certainly do not walk. Snakes have been found with remnants of hips and vestigial limbs and every snake has the DNA capable of producing limbs, except those genes are generally turned off. In this case, the snake did form with a limb on its side due to some tweaking of the Hox gene. The woman who discovered the snake in her bedroom reportedly beat it with a shoe and then preserved it in a bottle of alcohol so its body could be researched.

3. Lucky
The owners of this two-faced calf born late last year named her Lucky. And maybe in some ways she was. She was born on a farm in Kentucky and most calves born with her condition don’t make it full-term. When she was born, the family knew they were in for a rocky future with Lucky. She needed a lot of medical attention. Neither of her faces were fully formed, with both mouths having cleft palates. She would need surgery if she were to survive to adulthood. Her family could have given up on her, but her owners have been quoted saying, “We weren’t going to give up on her while she was living, you can’t just give up on somebody because they’re different.” So the community raised over $1000 to give Lucky the care she would need if she made it into adulthood. Lucky lived a short life, only 40 days, but she was loved and nurtured by her family. Because of their attention, she had the longest known lifespan of any calf with her condition.

2. The Cyclops Kid
Cyclops aren’t only a thing of myth. Every now and again, a real, living cyclops is born. That’s exactly what happened on May 10, 2017 in Assam, India. He wasn’t the spawn of Poseidon, either. Instead, he was born to two healthy parents. So, how does something like this happen? Cyclopia, the medical name for his condition, occurs in the womb and is the severe form of holoprosencephaly (holo-pro-sen-cephaly). The condition is the result of an inability to separate the brain into two distinct hemispheres. When the brain doesn’t separate, the fetus creates only one eye socket and its eyes never separate into two. Instead, one large eye or two partially formed eyes are created. In the case of this baby goat, only one oversized eyeball was formed. He also lacks a formed nose and some teeth, eyelids or eyelashes, and has only one complete ear. Vets gave him approximately one week to live, as the condition is usually fatal. However, he is stunning everyone and continues to live the life of a normal baby goat--more or less. Although he might be a little off putting for some, his owners consider him a blessing and believe he might give them some household luck.

1. Frankie and Louie
Looking at Frankie and Louie is a little like looking at a Pablo Picasso masterpiece. Frankie and Louie are an example of a two-faced cat, otherwise called a Janus (ya-nus) cat, after the two-faced Roman god. Frankie and Louie are allegedly the result of twin-absorption in the womb, where one fetus almost entirely absorbed its twin, but the twin was left to develop its face. Other vets say Frankie and Louie are the result of an extremely rare congenital disorder called diprosopus (di-pro-suh-pus), which causes the facial accessories to be duplicated. No matter the reason, Janus cats and two-faced animals are born relatively often. They usually don’t live very long after they’re born, but Frankie and Louie defied the odds. They took the record for longest living Janus cat and lived to be 15 years old.