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[CanadianSamurai]

Here is the Siamese twins yesterday, they where full term and the other egg hatched out a full pin . These two were joined at the heart and the one head was deformed during the growth and development in the egg ( twin face was pushing on it ).

[Treebiscuit]

Sad but interesting.
Did they live at all or did you cut them from the egg? (Just curious).

[StormyMay]

i would have them preserved, anything to get the kiddies interested in sciencey stuff, their short lives would not be wasted

[aalbertson3]

Very interesting... I have rarely seen this happen with crested geckos. Thanks for sharing.

[CanadianSamurai]

So they suffered from Thoracopagus ( form of conjoined twin). The one with the deformed head was not moving and the egg was piped by them , the egg was normal size and was hatching at the same time as the clutchmate. I finished the opening once I saw the face out of the egg and the toungue out ( Most will know what this looks like when a baby does not fully hatch and dies during the hatch ). It happend from a different paring about 2 years ago , so it must be pretty common for large scale breeders.

[elbee]

This is quite sad, but very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

[newlyson]

Im sorry for the loos of the babies but that is really interesting.