World’s First Ever Recorded Grey Seal Twins Confirmed

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The pups, pictured here at the end of last year, were abandoned by their mother. Geoffrey Robinson Photography

When a female grey seal was found to be nursing two pups last year on a beach near Norfolk, eastern England, observers suspected that they might have been twins, an incredibly rare event for grey seals. Now it seems their intuition was correct, as they have received confirmation that the two young seals are indeed brother and sister, making them the first ever recorded grey seal twins in the world.