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Two-headed, six-legged baby dragon

David Pescovitz at 11:05 am Fri, Jul 23, 2010

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Just a month after the Venice Beach Freakshow acquired a two-headed albino snake named Lenny and Squiggy, they've welcomed a two-headed six-legged baby bearded dragon to its new sideshow home. Freakshow owner Todd Ray paid $5,000 to an amateur herpetologist near Dayton, Ohio for the critter, now named Pancho and Lefty. The Freakshow now has 14 live two-headed animals. From AOL News:

(Pancho and Lefty) move with relative ease, although sleep can occasionally be a struggle when Pancho wants to rest, but Lefty doesn't. Lefty will start walking and dragging his twin in a desired direction. When Pancho inevitably wakes up, he'll start pulling the other way.

But overall, they get along well and never fight.

"It's like they're used to having each other there," Ray said.

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David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • Baron Karza

    Who says nuclear waste is all a bad thing?

  • Gilbert Wham

    Anyone care to elucidate me as to what that excellent bit of cop-show funk was in the soundtrack? I need to pimp-strut around with that in my ears…

    • Anonymous

      It’s by Nujabes, that much I know. Probably from his Champloo series of music.

    • Anonymous

      Tsutchie – Loading Zone

      But Nujabes is(was) cool, too!

      • Gilbert Wham

        Thanks.

  • Itsumishi

    “It’s like they’re used to having each other there,” Ray said.

    Well if there was ever a time to utter the words “Thanks Captain Obvious!” I guess it’s now.

  • draconoth

    that is just disturbing can i get a chaser please that makes me sad and sick that they would let it stay alive in that kind of shape im not into deformed animals sorry

    chaser please or link to robot unicorn

  • charlesj

    Too bad Spemann and Mangold did not live long enough to collect royalties on their discovery.

  • mchampag

    Gah.

  • macegr

    I guess $5,000 can buy you either a stolen phone and search warrant, or a two-headed lizard. I think whether you’d choose the lizard or the phone tells a little bit about what kind of person you are.

  • efergus3

    Should have been Pancho and Cisco.

    • Raj77

      But then it wouldn’t have been a Townes van Zandt reference, and therefore would be less cool.

    • teknocholer

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMPydiR4NaQ

  • Trent Hawkins

    Challenge Rating: 1/4

  • RHK

    But when are they going to acquire the 4 assed monkey?

  • Glossolalia Black

    (Very) small criticism: I think that Lenny and Squiggy probably shouldn’t be referred to in the singular. If they are as they appear to be, and are as individual as Lefty and Pancho here (who, by the way, are ADORABLE), then the Venice Beach Freakshow acquired two albino snakes that share one body, not a two-headed albino snake.

    The only reason I bring this up: because Abigail and Brittany would probably say the same thing.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel

    I get that it rolls off the tongue easier to say “two-headed” though.

    • Donald Petersen

      “Tongues,” you mean.