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Chloe Cawood & Graeme Murray

Goat born with mutant cyclops eyes fused together on forehead astonishes farmer

A farmer has been left astonished after his goat gave birth to a kid with cyclops eyes.

The mutant goat was born with two large eyes fused together in the middle of its forehead.

News of the unusual animal spread quickly through the community prompting amazement from onlookers.

Crowds of people rushed to see the rare phenomenon after it was born on Thursday morning in Sultanpur, India.

The baby goat was found to have two eyeballs under one eyelid.

Goat owner Umesh Maratha has been raising goats for years, but this is the first time he has seen anything like the mutated goat.

Its strange appearance left people in disbelief and some compared the lamb to a human.

The baby goat was born with a single eyelid housing two eyes (Jam Press Vid/Rare Shot News)

The animal is the second off-spring to be produced by the goat who previously delivered a completely healthy lamb.

Aside from the obvious birth defect, the baby goat appears to be completely healthy.

In May 2019, a similar creature was born to the amazement of villagers in India.

The 'cyclops' calf was hailed as a miracle from God by those who flocked to worship it.

The mutant goat was born with two large eyes fused together in the middle of its forehead (Jam Press Vid/Rare Shot News)

It appeared to have just one single eye in the middle of its head and no nose.

Footage showed the mother cow licking her newborn while locals flock to the the scene to worship the calf in the Ranaghat area of West Bengal, India.

Speaking in local Bengali, one villager can be heard saying: "Everything is fine until the neck, it is just the head that is bizarre."

Another woman says: "I have never heard or seen anything like this in my life."

The goat's strange appearance has left people in disbelief, with some comparing the lamb to a human (Jam Press Vid/Rare Shot News)

The owner, who did not want to be identified, said: "The people from the neighbouring village have now flocked to our home and are asking us if they can worship it.

"We all think this is a miracle of God and we think this is Lord Brahma [creator god in Hinduism] who has taken birth in our home in the avatar of the cow."

Despite villagers awe of the mutant calf, vets have rubbished claims of a miracle, stating the abnormality is due to a biological birth defect called cyclopia.

Apart from its birth defect, the baby goat appeared to be completely healthy (Jam Press Vid/Rare Shot News)

Calves born with the rare congenital disorder, however, usually only survive for a few weeks.

In another bizarre sighting fishermen in Indonesia were astounded when they reeled in a white baby shark with just one eye.

They found the strange-looking catch inside an adult shark that died after being caught in their nets.

The rare Albino shark was caught off the coast of Maluku province on October 10, according to Yahoo News Australia.

But when fishermen cut open the creature's stomach to remove the gut - they found the little cyclops dead inside.

The baby shark had just one eye in the middle of its head, and its tiny fins had already formed.

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