Rare conjoined salmon twins surprise UWindsor researchers
Rare conjoined salmon twins were born at the University of Windsor’s Freshwater Restoration Ecology Centre (FREC). (PHOTO COURTESY OF TREVOR PITCHER/University of Windsor)
By Sara Elliott
A rare and remarkable fishy find is turning heads at the University of Windsor’s Freshwater Restoration Ecology Centre (FREC).
Among thousands of newly hatched Chinook salmon eggs this fall, graduate students discovered a pair of conjoined twins—an uncommon phenomenon that occurs in just one in every 10,000 eggs.