Posted on 01/09/2016 7:41:25 AM PST by ETL
(CNN)A hunter tracking down a mountain lion has stumbled upon a biological mystery.
Fish and Game officials say a male mountain lion involved in an attack on a dog near Preston, Idaho, was killed last week near the Utah border.
What the hunter discovered after examining the corpse can only be described as bizarre, even monstrous.
A photo released Thursday by Idaho Fish and Game shows the big cat had another set of fully-formed teeth and whiskers growing out of the top of its head. Wildlife officials say they have never seen a deformity like that -- but have offered up several theories.
They say it's possible the teeth could be the remnants of a conjoined twin that died in the womb and was absorbed into the other fetus. They then grew on their own.
Another explanation is a so-called "teratoma" tumor. This type of abnormality, whose Greek name translates to "monster tumor," can grow teeth and hair. In humans, it can grow fingers and toes.
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Something coming out of your foot like that would definitely be miserable...for your entire LIFE!
He needed a bobopsy.
Teratoma
Interesting observation. I wonder if it was painful.
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Preston, Idaho? Napoleon Dynamite trying to build his Liger?
Could be...
"Napoleon Dynamite is a socially awkward 16-year-old boy from Preston, Idaho, who lives with his older brother, Kip, and their grandmother. Kip, 32, is unemployed and boasts of spending hours in Internet chat rooms with 'babes' and aspiring to be a cage fighter; their grandmother leads a secret life involving mysterious boyfriends and quad-biking in the desert.
Napoleon daydreams his way through school, doodling ligers and fantasy creatures, and reluctantly deals with the various bullies who torment him"
More than likely, they will find that connection if they dig long enough.
Hey CNN.....its simple....its called a conjoined twin....one that was not fully developed.
I remember it. Mercury in the water of a paper mill causing monster freak bears if I remember correctly.
What’s the mystery?
They’re apparently not sure of the cause of the abnormality.
“They say it’s possible the teeth could be the remnants of a conjoined twin that died in the womb and was absorbed into the other fetus. They then grew on their own.
Another explanation is a so-called “teratoma” tumor. This type of abnormality, whose Greek name translates to “monster tumor,” can grow teeth and hair. In humans, it can grow fingers and toes.”
It is Global Changes fault.
It would be interesting to do a DNA test on the cat and its extra parts to see if they are different.
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Identical human twins have the same D.N.A. I don’t know about cats.
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