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I'm sorry, but that looks photoshopped.

It does look photoshopped, but on the thread that came out when it was born there are links to similar photos on a veterinary medicine site.

Apparently it is a rare but not unknown birth defect. So far always lethal within the first few days.

Yep. Things will get even worse as technology becomes more developed, cheaper, and dispersed amongst the public. It will be harder and harder to prove that a photo is real or if it is the result of a some middleschool kid sitting in front of his computer for 20 minutes. There was a time that a picture was worth a thousand words, but nowadays it could also mean some person with skills at photoshop.

Moving forward I think the same will happen to video, where clips can be altered by anyone. While this happens all the time in Hollywood (that is expensive, especially when nicely done) and in some homes (although the improvements are either cosmetic, for example removing red eyes, or if meant to ape Hollywood type effects they are nonconvincing) , I believe that soon cheap capable technology will soon proliferate throughout the populace that will enable anyone with time to create/alter digital video that has 'extras' added to it. For example adding a totally realistic sasquatch to your camping video (none of that blurry 'man-in-ape-suit' stuff), or having a perfectly realistic UFO flash by, or even go fishing and snag Nessie on your marlin line (although why you would have a marlin line on Loch Ness is beyond me ...LOL). Soon it will be impossible to believe video, and the tech will get so good that unless you see it with your own 2 eyes (with no TV/Computer/other screen in front of you) you just cannot believe it.

Who knows. Maybe pictures and video will have to possess digitalized 'stamps' of 'authenticity' to be accepted as 'real.' Hey, someone wants to help start a firm authenticating future digital video give me a holler (LOL).