This text describes 10 unique animals that are extremely rare and may only be born once every thousand years. These animals include a giant grasshopper called the weta, an eight-legged goat, a double-muscled whippet, a liger (a lion-tiger hybrid), a tiliger (a tiger-liger hybrid), a two-headed calf, a golden seal, a snake that appears to have legs, the shortest cow in the world (named Rani), and the vaquita porpoise (the rarest animal in the world). The list also includes a cobra with two heads, a rare condition caused by an underdeveloped twin.
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1. There are millions of creatures in the animal kingdom, and many have become extinct, like the Northern white rhinoceros.
2. The Weta-punga is a type of grasshopper that is also known as the "terrible grasshopper" due to its large size.
3. Weta-punga grasshoppers are found only on the island of Little Barrier in New Zealand and can grow up to 18 centimeters in length.
4. Weta-punga grasshoppers weigh around 35 grams.
5. The Maori people consider Weta-punga grasshoppers to be demonic.
6. Weta-punga grasshoppers have been around for 70 million years.
7. The Octogoat, an eight-legged goat, was born in Croatia and had both male and female reproductive organs.
8. The Octogoat was a result of an undeveloped twin, which was supposed to be a male and a female, but merged instead.
9. Veterinarians say that animals born with such anomalies do not usually survive for long.
10. The Double-Muscled Whippet is a dog breed that has a genetic mutation causing it to have double musculature.
11. The most famous Double-Muscled Whippet is Wendy, who weighed 27 kilograms and had a feminine version of the Hulk-like appearance.
12. The Liger is a hybrid animal resulting from the cross between a lion and a tiger.
13. The Liger is the largest cat in the world, and the most famous one is Hercules, who lives in the Myrtle Beach Safari Wildlife Reserve in North Carolina.
14. Hercules is the largest living cat in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records in 2014.
15. The Tigon is a hybrid animal resulting from the cross between a male tiger and a female liger.
16. There are only six Tigons in the world, and they have a fluffy growth of hairs around the neck, which is a mark of their lion genes.
17. A two-headed calf was born in Northern Macedonia and had a condition called polycephaly.
18. The calf had fused skulls, two pairs of eyes, and a pair of ears, and could eat with both mouths.
19. A Golden Seal was discovered in 2017 on the island of Tiuleni in Russia, and it had a rare pigmentation that made it appear golden in color.
20. The Golden Seal had an almost golden and even reddish appearance without any pigmentation in the eyes.
21. Scientists say this is the first documented case of an abnormally colored seal surviving to adulthood.
22. A snake with legs was found in southwest China, and scientists say that there is nothing in biology that prohibits such a mutation.
23. The shortest cow in the world is Rani, a Bhutanese cow that measures 50 centimeters in length and weighs 28 kilograms.
24. Rani was born in 2019 on a farm in Bangladesh and is considered a shy animal that doesn't eat much.
25. The Vaquita porpoise is the rarest animal in the world, with only 10 individuals remaining.
26. The Vaquita porpoise is native to Mexico and was discovered for the first time in 1958.
27. The Vaquita porpoise is often trapped and drowned in nets used by illegal fishing in the Gulf of California.
28. A cobra with two heads was found in the Chinese region and had a condition called polycephaly due to an underdeveloped twin.
29. The cobra with two heads was delivered to the zoo in the city of Nanín, where it survived for 10 days and shed its skin.
30. Two-headed snakes are not exactly a fake photograph, as the mutation can exist, and a rat snake with separate throats and stomachs survived for 20 years.