Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale

RogueBanana@piefed.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Identical twins, yes. You can have multiple eggs fertile at the same time. Two of my childhood friends were a boy and girl who were twins, obviously look quite different lol

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• bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think that’s just identical twins, but fraternal twins are two separate eggs being fertilized, which is how you can have twins of different sexes

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The concept of “twins” is far older than any knowledge of eggs (in mammals) and sperm cells. Two babies come out at the same time, language decided to call those twins.

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