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A sheep gave birth to a dead lamb with a human-like face. The calf was born in a village not far from the city of Izmir, Turkey.

Erhan Elibol, a vet, performed Cesarean section on the animal to take the calf out, but was horrified to see that the features of the calf’s snout bore a striking resemblance to a human face.

“I’ve seen mutations with cows and sheep before. I’ve seen a one-eyed calf, a two-headed calf, a five-legged calf. But when I saw this youngster I could not believe my eyes. His mother could not deliver him so I had to help the animal,” the 29-year-old veterinary said.

The lamb’s head had human features on – the eyes, the nose and the mouth – only the ears were those of a sheep.

Veterinaries said that the rare mutation most likely occurred as a result of improper nutrition since the fodder for the lamb’s mother was abundant with vitamin A, CNNTurk.com reports.

In Zimbabwe, a goat gave birth to a similar youngster in September 2009. The mutant baby born with a human-like head stayed alive for several hours until the frightened village residents killed him.

The governor of the province where the ugly goat was born said that the little goat was the fruit of unnatural relationship between the female goat and a man.

"This incident is very shocking. It is my first time to see such an evil thing. It is really embarrassing," he reportedly said. "The head belongs to a man while the body is that of a goat. This is evident that an adult human being was responsible. Evil powers caused this person to lose self control. We often hear cases of human beings who commit bestiality but this is the first time for such an act to produce a product with human features," he added.

The mutant creature was hairless. Local residents said that even dogs were afraid to approach the bizarre animal.

The locals burnt the body of the little goat, and biologists had no chance to study the rare mutation.

Ekaterina Bogdanova
Komsomolskaya Pravda

10:30 AEST Wed Sep 16 2009

By ninemsn staff

Xiu Qiong Duan found the snake in her house.

An elderly Chinese woman who discovered a snake with a clawed hand protruding from its body was so scared she beat it to death, according to reports.

Xiu Qiong Duan, 68, told the SINA Beijing news agency she woke up in the middle of the night to find the snake clinging to the wall of her bedroom.

"I woke up and heard a strange scratching sound ... at first I thought it was thieves" she said.

"I turned on the light and saw this monster working its way along the wall using his claw."

Ms Duan, from Suining in southwest China, said she then grabbed a shoe and beat the snake to death.

She reportedly preserved its body in a bottle of alcohol which she gave to the Life Sciences Department at China's West Normal University in Nanchang.

Snake expert Long Shuai said the discovery of the creature, which is 40cm long and the thickness of a little finger, was "truly shocking".

"We won't know the cause until we've conducted an autopsy," she said.

TUCSON, AZ - A wild surgery took place Thursday when conjoined rattlesnakes underwent surgery to be separated in order to survive. The conjoined snakes are an anomaly rarely seen in the wild.

The snakes, which were connected just below the head, were found at a construction site and brought to the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. The museum enlisted local vet Dr. Jim Jarchow to attempt to separate the animals.

"It's my job to improve their quality of life and survive and function as they normally would," Dr. Jarchow says.

The Desert Museum said that it is extremely rare for snakes to be found like this in the wild.

"I've been working with reptiles for 20 years and this is the first time I've seen them in the flesh," says Stephan Poulin with the Desert Museum.

The surgery took about 45 minutes, and after three weeks of living together, they quickly became two separate snakes.

Originally it was thought the snakes were connected by soft tissue only, but during the surgery Dr. Jarchow found that the snakes were actually connected by bone.

"They shared part of the top of two vertebrae and we had to cut through the connection," he says.

Recovery from the surgery will take several months, after which the snakes will be put on display at the Desert Museum. The snakes were moving on their own just a few minutes after surgery and are expected to make a full recovery.

"They should live a healthy, complete separate life from each other," says Poulin.

And even though these twins will now live their own lives, they'll always share a special bond.

Interesting blog...