A Maine woman discovered what happens when you help turtles cross the road: you find a two-headed snapper. Photo: (Dan Frye/ Associated Press) A Maine woman trying to help turtle cross the road got the surprise of her life when she discovered a two-headed little snapper stuck in a hole.
Both heads are fully functioning and the snapping turtle (or turtles) appears to function much as human conjoined twins.
Kathleen Talbot is keep the two-headed phenom in a kiddie pool in the backyard of her Hudson, Maine, home. She says she doesn’t want to keep them as a pet but to give them a shot at survival.
She did name them: Frank and Stein.
It’s not the first two-headed turtle to survive after hatching. A two-headed turtle hatched at the San Antonio Zoo in 2013 and became so popular it got its own Facebook page.
They might even be fairly common, as a U.S. website that sells turtles advertised one as “one of the nicest we’ve ever seen” and “and oddity even for two-headed turtles.”
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