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Old 07-27-2002, 11:41 PM   #10
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Re: Sounds fishy...

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Originally posted by dude123
Normally, in humans anyway, conjoined twins must be identical twins, and therefore must be the same sex (and color, for that matter). Identical twins happen when a fertilized egg splits into two separate embryos; conjoined twins happen when this process only goes part-way. So these kittens are either something different and even weirder, or a hoax...
You're right, as far as I remember my biology -- siamese twins result from incomplete -blast division (2-3 days of formation) and thus must be identical...

This (if true) must be due to environmental oddities -- krazy glue?


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