Shredder nowhere to be found.

Some neighborhood kids stumbled across a really cool looking rock on May 21st in Albany. They thought it was way cooler when it poked two heads out of it’s shell and begin looking right back at them with two sets of eyes.
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Flash forward two months and northwest 15 miles: Two girls in the same NY county find themselves face to face with a frog. An eyeless frog. This was July 21st in Raymertown, NY, also part of Rensselaer County.
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Just to be clear: both animals seem healthy and happy. The frog has no trouble hunting and eating prey and the turtle’s heads both seem to be complete, fully functional, and capable of moving and seeing things independently.