Two-headed Reptile Fossil Found in China

[TheBORG] writes "A tiny skeleton from the Early Cretaceous shows an embryonic or newborn reptile with two heads and two necks, called axial bifurcation ('two-headedness') (a well-known developmental flaw among reptile species today such as turtles and snakes) was found in China by French and Chinese paleontologists recovered from the Yixian Formation, which is nearly 150 million years old."

I tried to claim credit for this...

[BrunoBigfoot]

But everyone looked at me like I had two heads.

Pollution in China

[MillionthMonkey]

We've seen two-headed animals [youtube.com] from China before. Apparently the pollution there is getting so bad it's going back in time!

Latin name?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know what Latin name they're going to give this two-headed creature, but it seems like they should try to squeeze "zaphod" in there somewhere.

Two headed reptile fossil in China?

[monoqlith]

So that's where Karl Rove went!

Re:The ass casts the deciding vote

[Fireflymantis]

Any links? google mews shows nothing. (at the moment) If this is true, God Speed Stephen King. I hope your journey into the unknown is exciting as the stories you have told.

Obligatory

[Sneakernets]

I, for one, welcome our ancient dual-core overlords.

Re:Obligatory

[stonedcat]

AMD or Pentium?

Sounds like grandma...

[Anonymous Coward]

Two-headed reptile. 160 million years old.

Yup, that's her.

Re:The ass casts the deciding vote

[ag0ny]

Ah, I'll leave it to his noodly appendage, god, yaweh (sp?) $DeityOfChoice
-nB

Sorry, but I'm busy today. Remind me about this tomorrow.

Re:The ass casts the deciding vote

[networkBoy]

Post-It is on your altar.
thanks :-)

Not to be outdone ...

[NoMaster]

Not to be outdone, Japanese scientists have discovered a three-headed monster [wikipedia.org] with two legs, bat-like wings, and two tails.

Tokyo residents are fearfully awaiting the appearance of a giant moth and two tiny priestesses...

In Soviet Russia...

[WetCat]

In Soviet Russia the coat of arms [wikipedia.org] founds YOU!

So what does this mean to me?

[ProppaT]

There have been retarded turtles roaming the earth for 150 million years now. God speed, retarded little turtles....God speed.

The genes canna take much more o' this!

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

"A tiny skeleton from the Early Cretaceous shows an embryonic or newborn reptile with two heads and two necks, called axial bifurcation ('two-headedness') (a well-known developmental flaw among reptile species today such as turtles and snakes) was...recovered from the Yixian Formation, which is nearly 150 million years old."

So God's been fucking up his engineering for a lot longer than 6,000 years?!?!?