DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A miracle of Mother Nature was just what we needed amid a global pandemic, but when rare conjoined twin seahorse babies were born in August at the Bethune Cookman University Aquatic Research Laboratory even that reprieve was short lived, because it’s 2020.Dr.
Sarah Krejci, assistant professor of biology and environmental sciences, reported the conjoined dwarf seahorse twins were born Aug.
17. The little babies made it 15 days before Krejci and her students discovered they had died.The lab was tracking the health of the twins closely because the “presence of conjoined seahorse twins is a very rare occurrence” and “even in previous reported cases, none made it past their first day of life,” according to the lab’s.