2-Headed Snake
AP has video on a 2-headed snake discovered in Illinois. They misidentify it as a watersnake, though. It's a juvenile ratsnake.
Cryptozoology, BioForteana, and Remarkable Species
AP has video on a 2-headed snake discovered in Illinois. They misidentify it as a watersnake, though. It's a juvenile ratsnake.
A Chinese woman killed what looks like a "one-legged snake." (News source.) Labels: hoax, mistaken identity, mutation, snake
Andrew Gable has a posting on his blog about a rare mutation of a grasshopper found in the UK. I've seen records of pink katydids here in the US; that might make an interesting book, Mutants in the Insect Kingdom.
A rare white-furred raccoon in Florida has the woman who feeds it worried that hunters might come along and kill it. (Apparently, she's less concerned about the dangers of habituating the animal to human presence by feeding it.) (News source.)

An albino whale shark was photographed off the Galapagos islands. (News source.)
There are serious concerns that Japan's whaling fleet may kill a white humpbacked whale that has become an annual celebrity in its migrations to Australia's Great Barrier Reef. (News source.)

A chicken born on April 1st, yes April Fools Day, has four little legs.
The chicken was born in Arkansas to Robert Holmes and has been named 4-Wheel Drive.....
Labels: mutation, strange animal
Labels: mutation