Baby Born With Ears Under Its Chin

Birth imperfections are quite general around the world, some more than others. Every once in a while we see one that just catches our awareness and makes you consider back to whether or not you had seen it before. In this case, it appears to be a unusual deformity that caused there to be a baby born with ears under its chin. The picture, taken from the popular photo site  explains a newborn baby who was born with a few cranial birth faults, such as a deformed mouth and jaw 

 

The position of the ears in this case is to some extent reminiscent of where gills would be on an aquatic animal, or fish. Perhaps they just failed to migrate to the side of the head after they were formed. In the first trimester of the pregnancy, ears form along the jaw line out of cartilage. At some point for the duration of the second trimester the ears typically migrate to their correct place on the side of the head. This is the usual procedure that appears to have failed

In the case of the child in this photograph, it is not known if the child was born prematurely (too early) or if it survived post-birth. Details about when