old news, but I missed it the first time around:
"Staff at a Thailand crocodile farm are nursing an unusual new arrival: a pair of conjoined crocodiles. Chang and Eng - named after the world's most famous Siamese twins - were hatched on Saturday at the Samut Prakarn zoo just south of Bangkok. The animals each have a head, but share a common lower body with one tail and have four legs each."
That picture is from 2001; if they're still alive, they ought to be a lot bigger by now, but I can't find any later mention of them! The Samut Prakarn (or "Samutprakarn"?) croc zoo doesn't seem to have a web page; the only info about it that I've found is on travel agent web sites. (And of course in the news of that woman who commited suicide by crododile there.)
Update: sketchthecow points out that they died of constipation a few months later. "'They died from failure of the digestive system, as they shared a single digestive tract', Samut Prakarn crocodile farm executive director Uthain Yongprapakorn said."
How do they poop?
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I'd like to think it's an "anus dentada" situation, but the text says they have a tail, which I guess is behind them in the picture.
Out each other's mouths!
It's like that Southpark where they eat in their ass and poop out their mouths! :P
That's just the sort of article I could see you getting pissed off at if it were lacking a picture. :-)
Damn right! Wouldn't you be?
I thought deformed reptiles and amphibians were normal now.
http://frogweb.nbii.gov/deformities.asp
Two-headed turtle.
A human analog to above. Also your choice of two bodies, one head, or one body, two heads.
I remember seeing a preserved eight-legged lamb (goat?) on TV but I can't find it. Oh well.
All of those human specimen photos are from the Mütter Museum. A very neat place to visit, but not for the squeamish. Personally, I find the "deformed fetuses in jars" exhibit to be the most uncomfortable.
I decided to do my own searching, and found this story:
Siamese twin crocs die of constipation
The Sun, 12 July 2001
BANGKOK, Wed: Thailand's first pair of conjoined crocodiles has died after coming down with a severe case of constipation, staff at the zoo where they were cared for said today.
"They died from failure of the digestive system, as they shared a single digestive tract", Samut Prakarn crocodile farm executive director Uthain Yongprapakorn said.
The crocodiles, joined from the belly to the tail, died on July 3. --- AFP
... the URL was http://www.jphpk.gov.my/English/July2001%2012.htm and I found it by looking for conjoined crocodiles, figuring there wouldn't be that many.
Looks like the poop speculation wasn't off the mark.