Such things do happen. This is called parasitic twin. It is an extremely rare type of cojoined twin where a baby is born with ...

The 17-year-old, who is from Uttar Pradesh, India, was born with his 'parasitic' twin attached to his abdomen and had a fully developed extra set of legs, as well as a pelvis. A parasitic twin is ...

A parasitic twin is an anomaly that occurs when two fetuses begin to develop in the womb, but one stops growing and remains dependent on the other for survival. In a complex and extremely rare ...

In a complex and exceptionally rare surgical procedure, doctors at AIIMS Bhopal successfully removed a parasitic twin that was attached to the skull and spine of a three-year-old girl. According ...