The strangest creatures on Earth

Cy, short for Cyclops, was a kitten born with only one eye and no nose. The kitten, a ragdoll breed (cats characterized by blue eyes and darker faces and tails) that died after living for one day, was one of two in the litter. Its sibling was born normal and healthy.

Cy inspired international debate, with many suggesting the unusual creature was a hoax. Cy eventually ended up at a museum of oddities in New York City.

Source: AP

Mike was a Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been mostly cut off as farmer Lloyd Olsen was slaughtering him for dinner. Olsen missed the jugular vein, leaving one ear and most of the brain stem intact.

When Olsen realized that the bird had survived, he decided to care for him permanently — feeding him a mixture of milk and water via an eyedropper. Also though initially to be a hoax, the bird was taken to the University of Utah to establish its authenticity.

This unusual golden coin turtle, found in China, was bought by a businessman at an animal market in Qingdao. According to press reports, the turtle seems to be doing fine — with its two heads cooperating and even able to eat at the same time.

The creature was most likely a conjoined twin (or a Siamese twin), a condition in which the bodies of siblings are joined before birth. 

Source: AP

About one in 5 million lobsters are blue — caused by a genetic defect that results in excess protein production. Yellow lobsters are even more rare, appearing only once in every 30 million lobsters. Yet startlingly, both were caught in the waters of New England in the past few years. In July, Denny Ingram hauled in this yellow lobster off Rhode Island. And a blue one was found in Connecticut earlier this year.

Snappy, an 8-foot-2-inch crocodile, is sporting haute-couture orange skin — the result of attacking the water filter of his enclosure at Roaming Reptiles animal park in Australia

This photograph of a pink albino bottlenose was snapped in 2007 in Calcasieu Lake, Louisiana by charter boat captain Erik Rue.

"It was absolutely, stunningly pink," Rue told ESPN. "I had never seen anything like it. It's the same color throughout the whole body. It looks like it just came out of a paint booth."

Regina Asmutis-Silvia, senior biologist with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, told the Telegraph: "I have never seen a dolphin colored in this way in all my career."

Source: Captain Erik Rue

Cats that can glow in the dark from a new genetic engineering technique are helping scientists study molecules that could stop AIDS
Luntik the cat lives in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok and caused a stir because of his four ears. He has been dubbed "Jedi Cat" by the British press. While his two main ears are perfectly normal, the small pair of vestigial ears contain no ear canals.

Four-eared cats have been reported as far back as the 1950s. More recently, Yoda the cat made similar headlines in Chicago.

Source: Reuters

This Roe Deer — labelled a unicorn because of the single horn in the center of its head — was born in captivity in a research center's park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence.

"This is a fantasy becoming reality," Gilberto Tozzi director of the Center of Natural Science in Prato, told the Associated Press. "The unicorn has always been a mythological animal."

Such deer anomalies may have been the inspiration for the myth of the unicorn.

Source: AP

Brothers Will and Matt Burrand-Lucas snapped this pink hippo while visiting the Masai Mar in Kenya to hunt the wildebeest migration.

While having a picnic breakfast on the banks of the Mara River, the rare beast emerged on the far bank of the river. According to a spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund, the hippo is leucitic and not albino, meaning it lacks pigment, but not necessarily melanin. 

The Lucas brothers said unusual creatures frequently become outcasts, rejected by their conventionally colored peers. "In this case however, we were relieved to note that the other hippos seemed to be treating the pink hippo just like any other."

An elusive striped rabbit that has rarely been photographed has been caught on film deep in the forests of Sumatra, thanks to camera traps set up in an isolated mountain region of the Indonesian island. The Sumatra striped rabbit is not only extremely rare, it is also extremely shy, emerging from hiding only under the cover of darkness.  Read more

Source: Jennifer McCarthy

White alligators are one of the rarest of the fearsome reptile from the Southeastern United States. The unusual coloration is a characteristic of a condition called leucism, the same absence of pigmentation that turned the Lucas brothers' hippo pink. This one was discovered in 1987 by the Louisiana Land and Exploration Company. 

Frank and Louie the cat was born with two faces, two mouths, two noses, three eyes — and lots of doubts about his future.

Source: AP Photo/Steven Senne

New video captured by an underwater camera near a deep-sea drilling rig off the coast of the United Kingdom depicts a giant, scaly blob dancing and pulsing under the waters. But that deepwater enigma is no mystery: It's actually a Deepstaria enigmatica, oceanographers said.

 

Source: Foxnews

You might also like：
English media named the top ten of beautiful breasts actresses	Apple continues to dominate world's top brands: study	Counting the dead during China's Great Leap Forward	Rare earth mining damages the environment	Spanish gold coin treasure surfaces after more than 200 years on bottom of ocean
无觅

Read More @ Source

The Chinese economy - the view on growth and inflation

15 Aug 2011 CNBC Straight Talk Here we have a very knowledgeable Chinese economist who is able to apply dynamic thinking to the problem of forecasting economic time series. Basically what this means is that he can construct policy to the best standards possible for his country. Any growth model used at the investment banks (or even at the central banks for that matter) has to be able to take into consideration the local as well as global forces in their scenarios and/or projections. It looks like it was filmed in Beijing. I travelled there about two years ago. There is no question that the world is now standing in the shadow of China. "We expect growth to decelerate. Actually in the first half GDP growth came in higher than we expected. In the second half we think monetary policy with its lagged effect will have a more powerful impact on the economy, but still for the year as a whole we expect the economy to grow by 9.2%" [Presenter - The bigger question of course is the debt crisis in Europe and America being bogged down. Can China be the saving grace for the world? Or is that not going to happen? Domestic consumption has suffered lately because of the crackdown on credit that was once free flowing by the PRC] "The market has been volatile and there is a risk of more economic slowdown. But for the time being we are analysing two scenarios. One is economic growth will be slower and sluggish in the advanced economies without a recession. Another one is a new recession. I ...

Video Rating: 0 / 5