Recent discoveries include:

In 1999, a three-headed turtle was discovered in Tainan, Taiwan, by a villager named Lin Chi-fa. In 2003, a two-headed angulate tortoise was discovered in South Africa, with the only other known case in the region reported in the early 1980s. In 2004, Solomon and Sheba, a two-headed Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise, was born in Dorchester, England. In 2005, a two-headed olive ridley sea turtle was found in Costa Rica by the World Wildlife Fund. In 2005, a baby turtle of unknown species was also reported in Havana, Cuba, in 2005. In 2006, a two-headed, six-limbed soft-shell turtle in Singapore named "Double Happiness" was also featured on a local television program, and again on another program in late 2006. In December 2021, a living two-headed Greek tortoise named Janus born in 1997 was displayed in the Museum of Natural History of Geneva. As of 2007, there is a fully preserved common snapping turtle named Emily with two heads at the Science Museum of Minnesota. In February 2011, a two-headed turtle was uncovered in Garner, North Carolina. A two-headed Florida redbelly turtle named Gege lived at the Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, transferred to a zoo where it spent the rest of its natural life until summer of 2008. A two-headed turtle is currently on display at the Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea. A two-headed turtle was released into the ocean with about 50 other turtles as part of a Broward County, Florida hatching turtle rescue program on July 19, 2012.
All 3 heads would bleat simultaneously, and it appears to have survived into adulthood. Maines Conant Museum had an adult sheep skeleton with 2 heads. Various two-headed sheep can be seen in the Bar Central Museum of Llubí, Spain. In 2006, a two-headed lamb was born in Shandong, China. The Ripleys Believe It Or Not! museum in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, has a mount. The Llanidloes town museum in Powys, Wales, has an example of a 2-headed lamb. The Liebig Extract of Meat Company factory (now a museum) in Fray Bentos, Uruguay, has a preserved 2-headed lamb. Mice
A 2-headed mouse was seen at Hallæ. Birds
An account of a 2-headed pigeon was published in France in 1734. In 2020, a two-headed song thrush was poached in Syria. Reptiles
Snakes
Most polycephalic snakes do not live long, but some captive individuals do. Wyman saw a 2-headed snake, alive, in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, in 1853. Leidy found a 2-headed snake in a field near Philadelphia. A two-headed black rat snake with separate throats and stomachs survived for 20 years. There are several preserved two-headed snakes on display in the Museum at the Georgia State Capitol Building in Atlanta. "We", the two-headed albino rat snake (see above)
A two-headed ladder snake, Elaphe scalaris, was discovered near the village of Pinoso, Spain. A two-headed king snake lived for nearly 17 years at the Arizona State University. A extremely rare two-headed albino Honduran milk snake named Medusa was bought by Todd Ray

Turtles
Two-headed turtles and tortoises are rare but not unknown.