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Title: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Spectre on January 10, 2006, 09:54 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060109/480/nyet27501091906
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Ryan on January 10, 2006, 09:58 PM
That thing is scary looking. :o

I would have liked to see it full grown, too bad it had to die.
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Joe on January 10, 2006, 10:10 PM
it's cute well I think.A shame it ahd to go on and give up on life.....just because it had no nose I mean with plastic surgury these days....
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Smartypants1635 on January 10, 2006, 10:38 PM
why do the ugly die young :'(
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Darth Slothus on January 12, 2006, 04:51 AM
My experience tells me that they(the ugly) DON'T die young, instead they grow up and get all the chics >:(
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Dimetrodon on January 12, 2006, 08:16 AM
Wow. I read the topic and just had a feeling it was going to be the cyclops cat.

I had that article sent to me by three different people in the past days. I think Famine was the first..
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Neal on January 12, 2006, 11:21 AM
I've heard some people claiming this photo is a fake.  The kitten only lived for one day, and I guess kittens don't open their eyes until they're around 10-days-old.  Then again, most kittens don't have one giant eye that takes up their entire face, so who knows if the typical standards hold true in this case.
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Rob on January 12, 2006, 12:28 PM
I'd think the photo was fake too, but then I'd also think that the story would have been checked for accuracy before the Associated Press would run with it.
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Matt on January 12, 2006, 12:31 PM
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/cyclopes.asp

Cyclopes

Claim: Photograph shows Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye.

Status: True.

Example: [Associated Press, 2006]

Origins: Many viewers were tempted to write off the above-displayed photograph, distributed by the Associated Press on 9 January 2006, as a fabrication because it seemed so far outside their realm of experience. However, the congenital abnormality exhibited by this kitten, although not common, has been observed and documented before in a variety of
species.

Cyclopia (or synophthalmia) is a birth defect in which a normally two-eyed animal is born with only a single fused eye, generally disproportionately large and centered on the face above the area where the nose would usually appear. Typically in cyclopic births the nose is either absent or present as an appendage located above the single eye. (Eyelids are also generally absent in such births, which explains why the eye of the one-day-old kitten pictured above is open even though cats are usually born with their eyes shut and remain in that condition for the first week or two of their lives.)

Pictures of cyclopic animals can be found on a variety of web sites (not recommended for sensitive viewers), including a site with photographs of a cyclopic goat, and another site displaying photographs of a number of feline deformities including cyclopia.

Last updated: 10 January 2006
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: jokabofe on January 12, 2006, 12:32 PM
Damn you Bill... I was just coming in here with a link to that...  >:(
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Matt on January 12, 2006, 12:35 PM
I'd be happy to delete, and let you do the honors.

Let me know. . .
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Rob on January 12, 2006, 01:05 PM
Wow, cyclopic animals aren't generally as adorable as that cute little kitten...

(http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/images/archive/fullsize/1717_fs.jpg)

Who'd have thunk it...
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Neal on January 12, 2006, 03:29 PM
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/cyclopes.asp

Cyclopes

Claim: Photograph shows Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye.

Status: True.

Example: [Associated Press, 2006]

Origins: Many viewers were tempted to write off the above-displayed photograph, distributed by the Associated Press on 9 January 2006, as a fabrication because it seemed so far outside their realm of experience. However, the congenital abnormality exhibited by this kitten, although not common, has been observed and documented before in a variety of
species.

Cyclopia (or synophthalmia) is a birth defect in which a normally two-eyed animal is born with only a single fused eye, generally disproportionately large and centered on the face above the area where the nose would usually appear. Typically in cyclopic births the nose is either absent or present as an appendage located above the single eye. (Eyelids are also generally absent in such births, which explains why the eye of the one-day-old kitten pictured above is open even though cats are usually born with their eyes shut and remain in that condition for the first week or two of their lives.)

Pictures of cyclopic animals can be found on a variety of web sites (not recommended for sensitive viewers), including a site with photographs of a cyclopic goat, and another site displaying photographs of a number of feline deformities including cyclopia.

Last updated: 10 January 2006

Well, there you go.
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Ryan on January 12, 2006, 08:17 PM
Wow, cyclopic animals aren't generally as adorable as that cute little kitten...

(http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/images/archive/fullsize/1717_fs.jpg)

Who'd have thunk it...

What is that? A cow?
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Rob on January 12, 2006, 09:37 PM
I think it was either a sheep or a goat.
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Scott on January 12, 2006, 09:53 PM
I often wonder what Greg(g) would look like if he were cyclopic
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Neal on January 12, 2006, 10:15 PM
Would it be that different?  Really?
Title: Re: Do You Think This Is What Myo Looked Like As A Baby?
Post by: Tracy on January 12, 2006, 10:16 PM
I assumed it was a Llama :P