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Venus The Two-Faced Cat Is A Marvelous Mystery

Published on 6/23/2014 at 5:21 PM

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Venus is a three-year-old tortoiseshell and she has some highly unique markings - her face is half black and half orange.

This remarkable cat has become a social media phenomenon over the last few years. She has 175k likes on Facebook, 138k followers on Instagram and has generated millions of views on YouTube. She's even appeared on The Today Show.

Take one look at this cat and you will see why she's amazing:

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Venus was adopted from a dairy farm in North Carolina in 2009.

A professor at the University of California, Davis, who studies the genetics of domestic cats, Leslie Lyons, told NatGeo that she's never seen a cat quite like Venus, "she is extremely, extremely rare." she said.

Many different reports suggest that Venus is a "chimera" -- a feline chimera's cells contain two types of DNA, caused when two embryos amalgamate.

What makes her even more unique is that her eyes are two different color eyes -- one is green and one is blue!