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Tricephalic Lamb, 16th Century

Woodcut of a "lamb with three heads" from Des Monstres et prodiges by Ambroise Paré, 1573. Des Monstres is filled with unsubstantiated accounts of sea devils, marine sows, and monstrous animals with human faces. With its extensive discussion of reproduction and illustrations of birth defects, the book invited accusations of pornography. Polycephaly is a condition of having more than one head. There are many occurrences of multi-headed animals, in real life as well as in mythology. Bicephalic or tricephalic animals are the only type of multi-headed creatures seen in the real world and form by the same process as conjoined twins: they all result from the failed separation of monozygotic twins.
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Tricephalic Lamb, 16th Century
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Woodcut of a "lamb with three heads" from Des Monstres et prodiges by Ambroise Paré, 1573. Des Monstres is filled with unsubstantiated accounts of sea devils, marine sows, and monstrous animals with human faces. With its extensive discussion of reproduction and illustrations of birth defects, the book invited accusations of pornography. Polycephaly is a condition of having more than one head. There are many occurrences of multi-headed animals, in real life as well as in mythology. Bicephalic or tricephalic animals are the only type of multi-headed creatures seen in the real world and form by the same process as conjoined twins: they all result from the failed separation of monozygotic twins.
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3000 x 3727 px | 32.0 MB
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25.4 x 31.6 cm | 10.0 x 12.4 in (300 dpi)
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