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This guy sustained an injury to the atlas of his spine, which scabbed over and began to metastacize. What I had originally thought was a tumor or cyst, grew into a fully functioning head!

Has anybody else ever encountered this?

hmm, must have grown an extra shoulder blade also, lol. Nice looking blue tree monitors.

Wow, that is amazing! I have seen some wild things on some of these fora such as V. melinus breeding farms, turtles regenerating feet, social monitor behavior, but a regenerated head? This is the first time I have seen a picture along with the story.

Thats crazy. I can see the thousands of other species being bred by humans but V. melinus, those are impossible to breed. And social monitors thats another impossible one, I can see fish, sungazers, skinks and many other but never a monitor, the brains maybe to under developed for that ability (what do you think?). For a foot to grow back, that is even more insane, only a dozen or more species can do that. Wait, actually I have heard we can do that but have a gene that pravents this, for what reason I don't know...maybe a way to pravent an extra head growing just because we got a cut. Just like you partially cut or remove tail from a lizard and it grows a second or third one.

So maybe these are not really that for from the truth?

Can't complain about getting a little head