two-headed animal
Bicephalic living being
A two-headed animal is a creature born with two distinct heads sharing one body, a rare developmental anomaly called polycephaly.
Most commonly seen in snakes and turtles, two-headed animals often struggle to survive because the heads may compete for control of movement or food.
The condition fascinates people as a curiosity of nature: The two-headed snake at the zoo draws crowds.
- bicephalicHaving two heads
- conjoinedAttached, sharing parts
- conjoined twinsSiblings born physically linked
- mutantGenetically altered organism
- genetic mutationHeritable DNA sequence change
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- Cabinet of Curiositiesmummy, taxidermy, fossil, tribal mask, ancient artifact
- rare phenomenaanomaly, rarity, oddity, phenomenon, aberration