In Mexico’s Laguna Ojo de Liebre, in Baja, Calif, scientists discovered on Sunday the first ever conjoined twin gray whale, which after the video as well as the photo uploaded online goes viral.
Conjoined twin gray whale, truly amaze some of the netizens for the fact that this phenomenon on mammals is very rare specifically on whales, which also defined as identical twins which joined by utero that can be frequently found on females and just often on males.
With this one of a kind phenomenon, according to Alisa Schulman-Janiger, an o American Cetacean Society researcher, she believed that conjoined twin gray whale’s mother died due to its underdevelopment, and for this reason, Scientists obtained carc(–foul word(s) removed–) to do further research for this case.
Swimming around 12,000 miles roundtrip from Alaskan waters in the summer to the Baja area in the winter, conjoined gray whales are considered as the ocean’s greatest travelers.
After they were discovered by the scientists, these conjoined twin gray whale are now protected by international law, for the fact that they were on the brink of extinction in the 20th century.
On Tuesday, Environmental group Guerro Negro Verde uploaded the photos of conjoined twin gray whales to its Facebook page.
