The two-headed turtle

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  1. Matt Rogers

    Matt Rogers Kingfish

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    Check out this two-headed turtle. Only a turtle can look cute with two heads.

     
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  2. bc219

    bc219 Millepora

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    That's cool, always neat to see stuff like that survive in the wild. If only they could talk...
     
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  3. 10acrewoods

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    wonder what sort of polution caused it or if it was just natrual
     
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  4. Matt Rogers

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    It says in the vid that it was the most polluted river there I think.
     
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    I wonder how much a 2 headed turtle would cost?
     
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    Heads at opposite end of shell




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    THREE headed turtle
    Well, 2 and a tiny malformed looking one.

     
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  7. SeanS

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    I believe it is known genetic defect with turtles, just most do not live long enough for us to see. It seems that turtles are just the ones we find most often. There is to much documentation on two headed turtles and to many have been captured to chalk it up to pollution. Pollution may have caused the gene to become dominant (if you really want to push a theory), but it did not cause the outright mutation.
     
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