Fraternal or dizygotic twins develop from two different eggs fertilized by separate sperm; they generally share about 50 percent of their genes. Therefore, fraternal twins are essentially like typical ...

Contradicting nearly all the medical textbooks, doctors have proven for the first time that fraternal, or nonidentical, twins can share a placenta. Until now, doctors believed that only identical ...

It was my third pregnancy, and when my bump grew faster, I assumed it was because I had done this before. It turned out I was pregnant with twins. They refused to take a DNA test now as adults to find ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Scientists describe twins as two beings who share the same uterus at the same time. They ...

I never believed in love at first sight until I met my now-husband. I couldn't recognize him from his identical twin brother over the phone. We ended up having fraternal twins, and I got to experience ...