SURPRISE TWINS 2 geckos 1 egg

[2bacop]

Wow that is so cool!!! Cant wait for the video!

 

[gage]

thats awsme never seen this before i think you might be a first

 

[mainelygeckos]

unfreaking believable WOW awesome..now speachless

 

[Tanga]

Woah dude, what a trip!!! Thats an amazing site the behold....2 geckos from ONE egg??!!
They look like they're going to grow into some seriously nice orange color as they age. Veddy veddy nice.

 

[leatherneck]

Amazing

 

[stewy84]

Wonder what the odds of that happin again if you were to breed them back to there parent? Sweat none the less

 

[Gregg M]

That's awesome! I do wonder why they're not identical though...that goes against everything I know about twins that share the same egg! lol

Khrysty, you would automatically think that because they hatched from the same egg it would mean they have to be monozygotic or identical twins... This can go one of two ways...

Polar Body Twining is the result of one egg splitting and then being fertilized by a separate sperm making the offspring "half identical"... This is very rare and has not been studied enough to be proven...

So what could have happend here??? Its pretty simple actually... Leopard geckos have two eggs per clutch... This makes the clutchmates dizygotic or fraternal twins in all cases... What most likely went on here is that 3 eggs were droped from the ova, all 3 eggs were ferilized by seperate sperm... The egg follicle then formed over one fertile egg and the other follicle formed over two feralized eggs...

So basically reptile and bird eggs are external placentas if that makes it easier to understand... What we are seeing here is an actual case of triplets and not twins...

 

[eyelids]

Miraculous that you got that pic! Very very VERY COOL!

 

[tazz0710]

Thanks everyone for all the comments. I will update this thread with Pictures later this week a to how all three look now. Also working on the video its over 100 meg and i have three diferent ones so im trying to convert to reduce size.

 

[yellermelon]

MOOOM shes on MY side of the egg...

 

[gecko geek]

very nice

 

[Khrysty]

Khrysty, you would automatically think that because they hatched from the same egg it would mean they have to be monozygotic or identical twins... This can go one of two ways...

Polar Body Twining is the result of one egg splitting and then being fertilized by a separate sperm making the offspring "half identical"... This is very rare and has not been studied enough to be proven...

So what could have happend here??? Its pretty simple actually... Leopard geckos have two eggs per clutch... This makes the clutchmates dizygotic or fraternal twins in all cases... What most likely went on here is that 3 eggs were droped from the ova, all 3 eggs were ferilized by seperate sperm... The egg follicle then formed over one fertile egg and the other follicle formed over two feralized eggs...

So basically reptile and bird eggs are external placentas if that makes it easier to understand... What we are seeing here is an actual case of triplets and not twins...

That makes much more sense, thank you!

 

[Lady_Kiya]

Omg... insane!

 

[Kellyr]

That is awesome that you caught them!! Great pics.. congrats!!

 

[Sidviciouser]

Thanks for posting. I have been wondering about that.

 

[fallen_angel]

I have heard of twins before, but never of them both surviving, so that's just AWESOME!! CONGRATS!!! That is too cool, what an amazing thing to witness!! That egg pic is just priceless :sweetheart: Thanks for sharing

 

[fallen_angel]

Khrysty, you would automatically think that because they hatched from the same egg it would mean they have to be monozygotic or identical twins... This can go one of two ways...

Polar Body Twining is the result of one egg splitting and then being fertilized by a separate sperm making the offspring "half identical"... This is very rare and has not been studied enough to be proven...

So what could have happend here??? Its pretty simple actually... Leopard geckos have two eggs per clutch... This makes the clutchmates dizygotic or fraternal twins in all cases... What most likely went on here is that 3 eggs were droped from the ova, all 3 eggs were ferilized by seperate sperm... The egg follicle then formed over one fertile egg and the other follicle formed over two feralized eggs...

So basically reptile and bird eggs are external placentas if that makes it easier to understand... What we are seeing here is an actual case of triplets and not twins...

That's very interesting and thank you for that explanation Gregg!

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

WOW!!! Amazing photo! Keep us posted on the little ones... every case of twins I've heard of in leos resulted in one not making it. Good vibes for the little ones!

 

[myelodiya]

That is amazing!
Congratulations on the special little ones :main_thumbsup:

 

[Jenn]

WOW!! Great pics. Please keep us updated.