Snake Found with a Foot

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal on September 15, 2009 at 12:30 pm

A 16-inch snake was killed at a home in China and then found to have a foot growing out of its body! 66-year-old Dean Qiongxiu said she awoke to find the reptile clinging to a wall in her bedroom. She killed the snake with a shoe and when she saw the clawed foot, she put the body in alcohol to preserve it. It was taken to the Life Sciences Department at China’s West Normal University in Nanchang for study.

Snake expert Long Shuai said: “It is truly shocking but we won’t know the cause until we’ve conducted an autopsy.”

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It's Not a Tumah! It's a Foot!

Posted by Alex in Medicine on December 19, 2008 at 12:49 am

Dr. Paul Grabb thought he was removing a benign tumor from a newborn’s brain. Instead, he found a tiny foot:

Grabb said he could not tell whether the miniature limbs were from a benign stem cell tumor called a teratoma or the remnants of an identical twin that did not split off and survive, a condition called fetus in fetu.

"It looked like the breach delivery of a baby, coming out of the brain," Grabb told The Associated Press. "To find a perfectly formed structure is extremely unique, unusual, borderline unheard of."

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Previously on Neatorama: Fetus in Fetu: the Male Pregnancy

 
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