On a beach in Turkey, a dolphin was washed with two heads. Apparently the young animal had lived about a year after the birth – what would be extremely surprising.

On a beach in western Turkey a dead dolphin was discovered – or more precisely, an animal with two heads. As the Dogan news agency reported, a physical education teacher has found the carcass at Dikili near the city of Izmir. “I could not believe it at first,” citing the British newspaper “Daily Mail” the Finder Tugrul Metin. “I’ve never heard of such a dolphin, let alone seen one. I was totally shocked.”

Metin called the police, who brought the corpse in a laboratory. Mehmet Gokoglu, a marine biologist at the University of Akdeniz, Dogan spoke loudly of a extraordinary discovery. The experts at the University of the animals now want to investigate further.

Conjoined twins are valid in the wild to be extremely rare – especially in whales, which include the dolphins. For a mother usually brings only a young one, and is unable to supply a second. In the rare case of a twin birth occur but once, therefore usually survives only a cub. The more unusual is the current Fund – for it shall be at the Siamese twins Dolphin not to newborns, but by around one year old pups.

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