Random Animals Born With Most Bizarre Mutations You'll Ever See (15 items)

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  (#12) An Earless Bunny

  A viral video of a bunny near Japan's Fukushima power plant incited speculation about the effects of radioactive contamination. The bunny, born without any ears, grazed amongst other rabbits right outside the 30km exclusion zone of the nuclear power station. The bunny may be evidence of contamination, or it could just be the victim of a random birth defect. Either way, experts are skeptical about the link between the two.

  Rabbits born without ears are rare, but the deformity is possible through genetic defect or from the mother biting off the ears while in distress. 
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  (#15) A Tri-Horned Cow

  A cow with three horns has milked its fame in China's Hebei province. The cow has two horns on the side of its head alongside the large horn in the middle of its forehead, which should constitute it as a "tri-corn," if anything. However, it has lovingly been referred to as "unicorn cow." The middle horn measures to be about eight inches long.

  The farmer, Jia Kebing, noticed a small bump on the cow's forehead years before its full growth, but didn't anticipate the outcome.
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  (#5) A Two-Headed Pig

  Rudy, the two-headed pig, was born on a farm in Iowa in 1997. While most two-headed pigs are stillborn or die soon after birth, Rudy was sold to "Pigs Without Partners" once he was about nine-months-old. The Los Angeles animal rescue bought Rudy for $5,000 and renamed him "Ditto." Ditto wore a helmet to protect his head, as a neurological disorder caused him to continuously fall over.

  A few months after his relocation, Ditto died in his sleep. His remains were used to aid in the research of facial deformities in children.
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  (#1) Some See-Through Frogs

  If a three-headed frog isn't solid enough proof of the effects of environmental pollution, maybe these transparent frogs are. Russian scientists blame environmental pollution for the mutant transparency of several frogs captured in central Russia. Their organs, skeletons, and even their beating hearts are blatantly visible through their skin. Some of them even have extra growths or limbs. 

  Vladimir Vershinin, head of zoology at the Ural Federal District University's Institute of Natural Sciences, added about the situation: "Frog eggs do not have their own membrane to protect them from a polluted environment."
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  (#7) A Trunk-Nosed Puppy

  Eduardo Landin, 35, of Argentina got a big surprise when his dog gave birth to a litter of 11 puppies. One of the pups was deformed, with a trunk instead of a nose. The look of the deformity has been compared to Dobby, the house elf from the Harry Potter series. Some say that pesticides used on farmland in the area are to blame.

  Landin received calls from people saying the puppy is evil and urging him to kill it, but he states, "it is a mutation, but it isn't evil."
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  (#2) A Two-Faced Cat

  Meet Frank and Louie, the longest living Janus cat on record. "Janus" refers to the Roman God depicted with two faces, and the condition contributed to the formation of two faces is known as diprosopia. This condition caused Frank and Louie to have three eyes, two noses, two mouths, and one brain.

  Typically, Janus cats die shortly after birth. However, Frank and Louie lived to be 15 years old and even procured their own Guinness World Record in 2006.

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