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This bizarre-looking baby was born in Charikot, the headquarters of Dolakha district, attracting a huge number of onlookers to witness the astonishing sight.

The neck-less baby with its head almost totally sunk into the upper part of the body and with extraordinarily large eyeballs literally popping out of the eye-sockets, was born to Nir Bahadur Karki and Suntali Karki at the Gaurishnkar Hospital in Charikot. The Karki couple is a permanent resident of Dolakha's Bhirkot VDC.

The bizarre baby, however, died after half an hour of its birth, Suntali, the mother, informed. It was taken to the hospital after its death. The news about such a baby being brought to the hospital spread like wildfire and there were hundreds gathered at the hospital to have a look. The police had to be deployed to control the crowd.

The baby weighed 2kg at birth and was born after the normal nine-month gestation period. Suntali, already a mother of two normal daughters, was not suffering from any illness during the pregnancy. Nir Bahadur, the father, says he does not feel any remorse for the newly-born baby's death. "I am happy that nothing happened to my wife," he said.

Note : The baby has a condition called anencephaly, a neural tube defect (like the cyclops baby), with no proper brain formation. The baby would have died a few days later. That's why women are advised to take folate in early pregnancy.

via World's Most Bizarre-Looking Babies

A kitty in Chongqing, China, is getting some extra-special attention these days: The furry feline has developed wings! Though born looking completely normal, once the cat hit the age of 1, he began growing wing-shaped appendages on either side of his spine, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reports.

While some think the bony limbs may be a mutation of some kind — or even a Siamese twin growing inside the cat — others speculate it's a genetic change perhaps caused by chemicals ingested by the kitty's mother while she was pregnant.

don't get in a flap... (link to article)

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and a link to my previous winged cat post!

STRAY CAT TAKES AFTER 'THE DONALD'
Kara Kuh of the Willamette Humane Society in Salem, Ore., shows off a cat recently brought in as a stray. The cat, dubbed "The Donald" by WHS staff in honor of the hairstyle worn by billionaire Donald Trump, has an approximately 1-inch-wide by 3-inch-long pouch of fatty tissue growing out of his head. The pouch droops down and completely covers the cat's face. It is possibly an old abscess and WHS staff say they have never seen anything like it.
(Kobbi R. Blair/Statesman Journal/AP Photo)

Meet Yoda the cat with FOUR ears

scientists have been cloning cats and making them glow in the dark

an albino mexican girl rode the carousel the other day, and i was completely enthralled

( albinos )

cat born with two faces!





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