Holy... Did you see that?

Um, two-headed baby. Seriously. Look: "Yahoo! News - Surgeons to Operate on Baby With 2 Heads".

Rather, look here. I mean, um, hey. Ear next to the mouth. Another ear on the chin. Nose, two eyes. Mom always told me that fetuses can absorb their twin. Sounded like something from an X-Files episode. Turns out, while rare, it's true, sort of. Really, the one fetus just stops growing, fused to the other. There's even a name for it: parasitic twin, craniopagus parasiticus, meaning the partially developed twin is parasitically dependent upon the fully developed twin.

"The head on top is growing faster than the lower one," said Dr. Jorge Lazareff, director of pediatric neurosurgery at the University of California at Los Angeles' Mattel Children's Hospital. "If we don't operate, the child would barely be able to lift her head at 3 months old."

I can't help but think that it looks like something ...oh, crap. The super-famous Hollywood prosthetic guy. One of his jobs. Or...remember the scene in Alien: Resurrection where the previous Ripley-alien merging results are kept in giant test-tubes? Like that. But, for real. Geezie creezie. The baby with the full body, Rebeca, is actually cute in that sweet, sleeping baby way. Will her parents ever tell her that she started off with two heads and that she wound up with the smaller one?

Although the second head is only partially developed, its mouth moves when Rebeca is being breast-fed.

Um. Oh. Eesh.

"You know, just off the top of your head."

quotes from AP article by PETER PRENGAMAN

Update

Poor little Rebeca died from a heart attack after the sugery. She lost a lot of blood, and her doctors believe that the stress of blood loss caused the heart attack. Poor little thing. It was pretty much an impossible procedure, but it had to be done. That second head would have destroyed hers in the growing process.

Second head. Oof.