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OK here is a photo that is a little bit creepy but I thought some might find it interesting.
I had these twin coxi pip out of an egg a couple years back. The one that piped out first had no eyes but but was able to cut through the egg with no problem. When it's twin piped out it looked regular at first. After a couple days neither came out of the egg any further. I slowly cut the egg away to find both were severly deformed in their lower body so I put them down. Interesting but disturbing at the same time.

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Randy Whittington

>>OK here is a photo that is a little bit creepy but I thought some might find it interesting.
>>I had these twin coxi pip out of an egg a couple years back. The one that piped out first had no eyes but but was able to cut through the egg with no problem. When it's twin piped out it looked regular at first. After a couple days neither came out of the egg any further. I slowly cut the egg away to find both were severly deformed in their lower body so I put them down. Interesting but disturbing at the same time.
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>>Randy Whittington

Twinning in snakes is interesting, Randy. I have had twins three times in my clutches - once in a clutch of Chinese beauty eggs and twice in two differnt clutches of meahllmorum eggs. I never saw them pipping or coming out of the egg - just ended up with one more neonate than there were eggs. I have had some deformed babies over the years, but in the clutches that had twins, they were all well formed.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research