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A
two-headed salamander tadpole that was
recently born in a community ecology lab at the University of Haifa, Israel.
Scientists at the ecology lab have
found no cause for the animal to have two heads,
but it is speculated that pollution could be to blame.
The two-headed salamander is a fire salamander
and can be found in Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and
Turkey and is listed as a “near threatened” by the
IUCN, This species are dwindling in numbers
due to human activities such as water pollution,
development and water use for irrigation.
Salamanders are sensitive to changes in the
environment. Determining the cause of the deformity is extremely difficult. The mother
of the two-headed salamander was collected from a polluted breeding
site. Pollution is still not to blame as the
sole cause. “I could speculate,” Bleustein told Live Science, “but it would be pure speculation.”
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