born with a fully formed supernumerary arm. It is an example of an extra limb on a normal body axis. In July 2007 a child was born with four legs at the Lebowakgomo hospital outside Polokwane (South Africa) On November 6, 2007, doctors at Bangalore's Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, India successfully completed surgery on a two-year-old girl named Lakshmi Tatma who was born with four arms and four legs; this was not true polymelia but a case of ischiopagus Siamese twinning where one twin's head had disappeared during development. Frank Lentini had a third leg, as well as a fourth foot and two sets of genitals. A boy named Gaurav, born in Tanahun district in Nepal with an extra arm growing out of his upper back between his shoulder blades, two years ago was published on 2016. Other animals A four-legged chicken was born at Brendle Farms in Somerset, Pennsylvania, in 2005. The story was carried on the major TV network news programs and USA Today. The bird was found living normally among the rest of the chickens after 18 months. She was adopted and named Henrietta by the farm owner's 13-year-old daughter, Ashley, who refuses to sell the chicken. The second (hind) legs are fully formed but non-functional. Four-legged ducks are occasionally hatched, such as 'Stumpy', an individual born in February 2007 on a farm in Hampshire, England. Frogs in the US sometimes are affected by polymelia when attacked in the tadpole stage by the Ribeiroia parasite. A puppy, known as Lilly, was born in the United States with a fully formed fifth leg jutting out between her hind legs. She was initially set to be sold to a freak show, but was instead bought by a dog lover who had the extra leg removed. An eight-legged lamb has been reported on at least two occasions including in 1898 and 2018. In mythology Many mythological creatures like dragons, winged horses, and griffins have six limbs: four legs and two wings. The dragon's science is discussed in Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real. In Greek Mythology: The Hekatonkheires were said to each have one hundred hands. The Gegenees were a race of giants with six arms. The centaurs had six limbs: four horse legs and two human arms. Sleipnir, Odin's horse in Norse mythology, has eight normal horse legs, and is usually depicted with limbs twinned at the shoulder or hip.