14 DAY TRIAL // This past Sunday, the dead body of an odd-looking creature was discovered in the waters of Mexico's Scammon's Lagoon. At a first glance, the animal appeared to be a whale with two heads.
Scientists were the ones who cleared things out, and said that the creature was actually a pair of conjoined gray whale calves.
The baby whale's mom was nowhere in sight, and the people who found its offspring are clueless about what happened to it after delivery.
The carcasses of the two baby whales measured merely 7 feet (2.13 meters) in length, which is why scientists believe that their mother miscarried them.
Thus, the average gray whale calf measures about 12 - 16 feet (3.65 - 4.87 meters ) in length at birth, Pete Thomas Outdoors tells us.
Interestingly enough, it appears that this is the first time when a case of conjoined twins has been documented in gray whales.
The calves’ bodies have been collected, and scientists say that they will further examine them.
Footage of the conjoined whale twins is available below.
