The Chernobyl disaster of April 26, 1986 in Pripyat, Ukraine remains the most catastrophic nuclear accident in history.
Although the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone slowly seems to be returning to semi-hospitable conditions for wildlife, the animals who inhabited the area in the late 1980s weren’t as lucky. This piglet, on display at the Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum in Kiev, is a prime example.
Labeled simply as “mutated piglet,” the creature was born with dipygus, a congenital deformity that causes the body to fork left and right along the torso, and the pelvis and legs to duplicate. Nearly 40 years later, this animal is a stark reminder of the havoc that nuclear power can wreak.
thats awful. The poor baby isnt for show.